Uncertainty Quote by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“...a fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly unexplainable masculine…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single,…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott