Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Quotes

• “He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--som...”
• “We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for...”
• “...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. I...”
• “...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.”