Jealous Blackheart
A Well Read Demon
- Aug 25, 2023
- 247
Tonight I finished reading this book (Title) by Reginald Wright Kauffman. In short, it's about human trafficking in the United States in the early 1900's. The book was written a little more than 100 years ago.
Somewhere along the way I started noting lines from it that I found sincere. I thought I'd share. Spoilers ahead.
-"You and I are in the same boat. You can't get out because, if you do, the sharks will eat you, and I daren't get out because I can't swim."
-"Those tenements are not for living in. They're just to eat in, when you've got enough, and sleep in, when you can sleep, and die in, when you have to."
(Home in a nutshell)
-"The newly acquired habit of seclusion, the habit of the prisoner, recoiled upon her. Freedom was strange."
-"When we're old enough to have learned properly to play the game of love, we're too old to play it."
-"After all, she used to reflect, nothing much mattered. She had nothing pleasant to look forward to and, therefore, she wisely refrained from looking forward. She had no past that did not have its pain for her vision, and, therefore, she resolutely kept her eyes upon the present day."
-"She had again been brought face to face with the most poignant of tragedies, the tragedy of living."
-"Life held nothing for which Mary greatly cared, but the instant of death contained all of which she was afraid."
-""Oh, no," she said, forcing a smile. "I'm doin' grand.""
-"A sharp pain shot through her heart at the realization that, in this town, everything had gone on its placid way while so much had been happening to one of its children."
-"With nothing but suffering and horrors to live for, she could not put an end to life."
Somewhere along the way I started noting lines from it that I found sincere. I thought I'd share. Spoilers ahead.
-"You and I are in the same boat. You can't get out because, if you do, the sharks will eat you, and I daren't get out because I can't swim."
-"Those tenements are not for living in. They're just to eat in, when you've got enough, and sleep in, when you can sleep, and die in, when you have to."
(Home in a nutshell)
-"The newly acquired habit of seclusion, the habit of the prisoner, recoiled upon her. Freedom was strange."
-"When we're old enough to have learned properly to play the game of love, we're too old to play it."
-"After all, she used to reflect, nothing much mattered. She had nothing pleasant to look forward to and, therefore, she wisely refrained from looking forward. She had no past that did not have its pain for her vision, and, therefore, she resolutely kept her eyes upon the present day."
-"She had again been brought face to face with the most poignant of tragedies, the tragedy of living."
-"Life held nothing for which Mary greatly cared, but the instant of death contained all of which she was afraid."
-""Oh, no," she said, forcing a smile. "I'm doin' grand.""
-"A sharp pain shot through her heart at the realization that, in this town, everything had gone on its placid way while so much had been happening to one of its children."
-"With nothing but suffering and horrors to live for, she could not put an end to life."
