“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's li…" by James Joyce?
James Joyce191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.”
James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach
Simples, p. 15
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
“Yet no stiff and frowning face was hers, no undue austerity in her manners, but gay and simple loyalty, charm blended with modesty.”
Nec frons triste rigens nimiusque in moribus horror
sed simplex hilarisque fides et mixta pudori
gratia.
i, line 64
Silvae, Book V
“He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.”
Pamela Aidan book These Three Remain
Source: These Three Remain