Quotes
List here any quote, from G. B. Edwards's book The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words ..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ...
He looked as if he got a spice of the devil in him.
ReplyDeleteAfter my Uncle Nat came twins, who died, and then the two younger sisters, Priscille and Henriette, or La Prissy and La Hetty, as they were called. There were five years between them and they married the eldest and the youngest of the Martel boys, sons of Harold Martel of Ronceval, the builder. The Martels of Ronceval was quite well-to-do: but the older one Harold, married the younger sister, Hetty, who was years younger than him; and the younger one, Percey, married the older sister, Prissy, who was years older than him. It wasn't the way I would have arranged it, if it had been me.
ReplyDeleteI had to keep my eyes skinned for some boy who had been to Sunday School, so as I would know what the golden text was for that Sunday. I usually managed to nab Bill Rihoy, who lived at L'Islet; but I don't think he always remembered it right. Once he told me it was 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' When I repeated it to my father, he said, 'Well if that's what they teach you in Sunday School, soon there won't be many of us with any eyes, or any teeth, left.' As I have said before, he got some funny ideas in his head, my father.
ReplyDeleteI was happier working out-of-doors and in a boat; but you can't trust the sea, and the fishes get ideas into their heads and sometimes they are where they ought to be and sometimes they are not.
ReplyDeleteAh well, in the midst of life we are in death, as it says in the Bible.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a natural moustache like my father's; or even mine, when I tried to grow one. It looked as if it had been grown in a greenhouse.
ReplyDelete... when poverty come in through the door, the love go out through the window
ReplyDeleteLawyers are rogues. I always say whatever you do in this life, keep away from doctors and lawyers, or you will end up dead and have nothing left.
ReplyDeleteIt was then I wished my father was alive. He'd have said 'A.1., son! That's the ticket!'
ReplyDeleteI have lived too long. I have lived through two world wars and been no hero in neither. Two is one too many for any man. Now I sit and wait for the third. I wonder if I will live to see it. I don't believe, I don't believe, I don't believe in what the Powers do. Nurse Cavell said 'Patriotism is not enough.' She was wrong. It is too much! It is enough for us to love and hate our neighbors as ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to beginning a new chapter. I like to start on a clean page and forget all the mistakes I have made before.
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to bed for hours. I sat by the fire thinking. I reckon I thought about everything that had happened to me and all the people I knew until then. I thought well, if that is what being alive in this world is, it don't amount to much. A happy day and dreams of something coming; and then you wake up. A few pleasures you forget the minute they are over; and for the rest, just go on and on like donkey. That is what I am. A Guernsey donkey. Sometimes I stick my heels in and sometimes I kick ou and sometimes I lift my head to heaven and bray. I don't know if there's anything after, I'm sure. I do know if all the people on Guernsey go to heaven who think they're going, there won't half be some family rows up there. For myself I've had enough of my relations down here. If I rise from the dead and know who I am, it's Jim I want to see again.
ReplyDelete'A father and mother ought to mean more to each other than the children do. If they live only for then children, the children don't get a chance to live themselves.' (Raymond)
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