Quotes from Agnes Nitt (Perdita)
She stopped. At least, most of Agnes stopped. It took some time for outlying regions to come to rest. (Ma)
Agnes was, Nanny considered, quite good-looking in an expansive kind of way; she was a fine figure of typical Lancre womanhood. This meant she was approximately two womanhoods from anywhere else. (Ma)
No one had asked her, before she was born, whether she’d want a lovely personality or whether she’d prefer, say, a miserable personality but a body that could take size 9 in dresses. Instead, people would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys. (Ma)
People always tended to assume that she could cope, as if capability went with mass, like gravity. (Ma)
She felt the same feeling she’d felt back home. Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.
It doesn’t matter what direction you go. Sometimes you just have to go. (Ma)
…there are some people who are destined to be carried to comfortable couches and some people whose only fate is fetching a bowl of cold water. (Ma)
Agnes was, Nanny considered, quite good-looking in an expansive kind of way; she was a fine figure of typical Lancre womanhood. This meant she was approximately two womanhoods from anywhere else. (Ma)
No one had asked her, before she was born, whether she’d want a lovely personality or whether she’d prefer, say, a miserable personality but a body that could take size 9 in dresses. Instead, people would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys. (Ma)
People always tended to assume that she could cope, as if capability went with mass, like gravity. (Ma)
She felt the same feeling she’d felt back home. Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.
It doesn’t matter what direction you go. Sometimes you just have to go. (Ma)
…there are some people who are destined to be carried to comfortable couches and some people whose only fate is fetching a bowl of cold water. (Ma)
