Doris Lessing

The Fifth Child

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  • Hanne Warberg Harbohas quoted5 years ago
    Who said, ‘Well, you’re old-fashioned, that’s all. And a lot of girls would like to be, if they got the chance.’
  • Haikuhas quoted6 years ago
    The schoolgirl was there all the time, poor Bridget, clinging fast to this miracle of a family. Rather, in fact, as Harriet and David did. Both more than once – seeing the girl’s face, reverential, even awed, always on the watch as if she feared to miss some revelation of goodness or grace the moment she allowed her attention to lapse – saw themselves. Even uneasily saw themselves. It was too much…excessive…Surely they should be saying to her, ‘Look here, Bridget, don’t expect so much. Life isn’t like that!’ But life is like that, if you choose right: so why should they feel she couldn’t have what they had so plentifully?
  • Haikuhas quoted6 years ago
    Happy families,’ said Molly critically: she was standing up for a life where domesticity was kept in its place, a background to what was important
  • Haikuhas quoted6 years ago
    He made them feel uncomfortable. Not Harriet. She knew his look of watchful apartness mirrored her own. She judged his humorous air to be an effort.
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