A Lantern in Her Hand Quotes

“But, Mother, Katherine wouldn’t care. And there’ll be thousands of stitches in it.” “And a thousand thoughts of love caught in the stitches, Grace.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

“Far into the evening they sat around the old coal burner talking and laughing, with tears not far behind the laughter - the state legislator and the banker, the artist, the singer, and the college teacher. And in their midst, rocking and smiling, sat the little old lady who had brought them up with a song on her lips and a lantern in her hand.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

“How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I’ve seen everything . . . and I’ve hardly been away from this yard. I’ve seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombardy poplars. I’ve seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I’ve seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the prairie grass.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand