Sarah Orne Jewett: Quotes about life

Sarah Orne Jewett was American novelist, short story writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

Country By-Ways http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/cbw/cbw-cont.htm, River Driftwood (1881)

“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.”

Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 15