“The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants' corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic… — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“of resentment, as he clambered into the carriage, that it was Liberty Hall for the remaining servantry until then.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Hill had changed Lyddie’s nappies, wiped her snotty nose, had nursed her through colic” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
