Mrs. Hill had changed Lyddie’s nappies, wiped her snotty…

“Wherever you are in this world, the sky is still above you. Wherever you are, God still watches over you; He sees into your…

— Jo Baker

“Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that…

— Jo Baker

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

— Jo Baker

It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France…

— Jo Baker

Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves…

— Jo Baker

“Sarah was soon lugging pasteboard boxes, paper packages and rolled samples of wallpaper. She had seen all of this before: she had daydreamed it.…

— Jo Baker

“Other, dryer customers came and went, having just stepped out of their conveyances or popped down the street from their houses in the town.…

— Jo Baker

“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink, he knows…

— Jo Baker

“She wished the journey was over, but she did not want to arrive.”

— Jo Baker

“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.”

— Jo Baker

“The ladies, who had condoled so thoroughly with her during her time of grief, found it rather more difficult to participate in her happiness,…

— Jo Baker

“of resentment, as he clambered into the carriage, that it was Liberty Hall for the remaining servantry until then.”

— Jo Baker

“You have no idea at all yet what you can bear!”

— Jo Baker

“I would ask if you miss me like I miss you, so that there is not another spot in all the world that seems…

— Jo Baker

“you can’t be permanently hysterical, so you might as well not bother getting started.”

— Jo Baker