Madeleine Thien quotes

Madeleine Thien quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.”
-- Madeleine Thien

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”
“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“I don't do office work at home.”
“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.”
“A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.”

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