# Quote — Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter

> Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle. (First lines)

- Author: [Nadine Gordimer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer.md)
- Book: [Burger's Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer#Burger's_Daughter_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/among-the-group

## More from this book

> But there's no indemnity. You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

p. 296 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/but-theres-no-indemnity.md)

> Communists are the last optimists.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/communists-are-the.md)

> There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/there-are-always.md)