Good Neighbors and Other Strangers

Quotes

1. At one point early in his journal Dr. Bannerman describes himself as “a naturalist of the puttering type—I would rather sit on a log then write monographs: it pays off better.”

   p. 128

2. 

   One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

   p. 154

3. 

   Their door closed; presently she cried out in that desired pain that is brief release from trouble.

   p. 41

4. 

   A crisis passed usually means another one approached.

   p. 82

5. 

   She likes to talk, but her mill often shuts off suddenly, because of a quality of hers which I find good as well as rare: I mean that when she has no more to say she doesn’t go on talking.

   p. 63

6. 

   What hurts us worst is to have our favorite self-deceptions stripped away.

   p. 169

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