Heart Quote by Cora Sandel

“Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.”

— Cora Sandel

“Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons…

— Cora Sandel

“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held one there,…

— Cora Sandel

“There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it…

— Cora Sandel

“Alberta felt her face grow old and shrivelled at her own words. She was a shadow already, half old, distressing, comic. Something happened from…

— Cora Sandel

“One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.”

— Cora Sandel

“Sometimes Alberta felt as if there were a conspiracy against her, as if the whole world were in agreement not to say a word.…

— Cora Sandel

“For a moment they all stood silent. The departure of this autumn ship gave rise to many different thoughts. Something came out of hiding…

— Cora Sandel

“She laced up her shoes and put on her coat, bracing herself as she got ready to leave, trying to find that feeling of…

— Cora Sandel

“The truth was Alberta only knew what she did not want. She had no idea what she did want. And not knowing brought unrest…

— Cora Sandel

“It placed its finger roughly on sore places.”

— Cora Sandel

“It was not altogether easy when one's daughters were too gifted, it really wasn't. Mrs. Lossius nodded in the direction of Harriet, who, well…

— Cora Sandel