"A Jest of God" Quotes
A teacher in a small Canadian town struggles with loneliness and the desire for independence.
fiction | 224 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
If you are a good woman, a man will never make you suffer.
Sometimes I think I'll never put down roots. I'll just keep drifting till I'm dead.
It's like I'm not really a person. I'm just a place for people to come and rest for a while.
It was as if I had been granted a moment of grace, a reprieve from my daily life of caution and suspicion.
The world was a place of infinite possibility.
I was alone again, in a world where no one cared what became of me.
It was a moment when the beauty of the world seemed to be laid bare before me.
It was as if I had been touched by a magic wand, as if the world had been made new.
It was a moment when I was filled with a sense of myself, of the wonder of being alive.
I have to accept the fact that I'm not beautiful.
