“Wherever you are in this world, the sky is still above you. Wherever you are, God still watches over you; He sees… — Jo Baker God 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… — 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… — Jo Baker Friendship Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Book Copy Share Image
“She wished the journey was over, but she did not want to arrive.” — Jo Baker Journey 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,… — Jo Baker Writers 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… — Jo Baker Rain 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… — Jo Baker Day-dreams 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… — Jo Baker Bundles Copy Share Image
It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields… — Jo Baker Emancipation Copy Share Image
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg. — Jo Baker Apples Copy Share Image
“Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple… — Jo Baker Happiness Copy Share Image
“you can’t be permanently hysterical, so you might as well not bother getting started.” — Jo Baker Getting started Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live… — Jo Baker Success Copy Share Image
“It is not, perhaps, an entirely happy situation after all, to gain something that has been wanted for long years. The object… — Jo Baker Time Copy Share Image
“So young Collins was there to select one of the girls, as you'd choose an apple from a costermonger's stall. A brisk… — Jo Baker Investing Copy Share Image
“The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah… — Jo Baker Shadows Copy Share Image
“Sarah, in the crush, was able to study Miss Lucas's face discreetly, she wondered what it was like to know that you… — Jo Baker Marriage Copy Share Image
“He stares now at the three words he has written.They are ridiculous. Writing is ridiculous. A sentence, any sentence, is absurd. Just… — Jo Baker Three words Copy Share Image
“Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed.” — Jo Baker Adversity Copy Share Image
“It was not that long ago that dinner had meant swallowing down whatever you could get your filthy hands on. . .… — Jo Baker Bread and butter Copy Share Image
Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind. — Jo Baker Heartbeat Copy Share Image
