Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

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The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Sarah Orne Jewett
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Sarah Orne Jewett
My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Sarah Orne Jewett
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Sarah Orne Jewett
'Tis a good deal more tryin' to be tied to folks you don't like than 'tis to be alone.

Sarah Orne Jewett
"Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.

Sarah Orne Jewett
In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Sarah Orne Jewett
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

Sarah Orne Jewett
A man's house is really but his larger body, and expresses in a way his nature and character.

Sarah Orne Jewett
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

Sarah Orne Jewett
Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

Sarah Orne Jewett
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Sarah Orne Jewett
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett
't ain't worth while to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

Sarah Orne Jewett
We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge.

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Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Sarah Orne Jewett