If you haven’t yet, you must read the book Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. Since it is one of my favorite books, I own not one but two copies (one of which is full of great illustrations by Quentin Blake). I don’t need to give you a complete review of the book (which is GREAT), or tell you what the book is all about (but if you want to find out, go here). There was also a pretty good movie adaptation made with Kate Beckinsale as Flora and Ian McKellen as Amos (I love you, Ian McKellen! You were great in King Lear!).
So this week when I was trying to come up with a post topic, I was rereading Cold Comfort and realized that if I open the book to any random page, I almost always find a great quote. So i did just that! Below are a sampling of quotes I found (with page numbers).
- My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly (p. 13).
- At this moment the trap came to a halt outside a public-house...and Flora was relieved, for the conversation seemed to have entered one of those vicious circles to which only death or collapse from exhaustion of one of the participants can put an end (p. 79).
- A strange film passed over Adam's eyes, giving him the lifeless privaeval look that a lizard has, basking in the swooning Southern heat (p. 32).
- She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while you were eating an apple (p. 46).
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