Lyddie Quotes

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

A magnificent cad, you mean. He's positively gaping at your bosom, Lyddie!" Mariah said in a scandalized whisper. "I swear he's undressing you with his eyes!" Lydia's lip twitched. "How lurid you sound. I really must censure your reading material." "There can be no doubt you have his attention now," Mariah giggled.

We can still hop.

Mrs. Hill had changed Lyddie’s nappies, wiped her snotty nose, had nursed her through colic

Lyddy,’ she added in a whisper, ‘it makes you so cruel to other people when you love anyone.

with a job at his tannery. Tomorrow I’ll go to Sears’s store and stock our cupboard, but for tonight, for the children—” She reached into her apron and pulled out the purse. Lyddie pushed it