Angle of Repose Quotes

I am much of what [...] my grandparents were—inherited stature, coloring, brains [...] and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial. (1.1.3)

And this is all [...] I am going to think about it. I am going back to Grandmother's nineteenth century, where the problems and the people are less messy. (3.1.75)

As a modern and a one-legged man, I can tell you that the conditions are similar. (1.1.11)

A Quaker lady of high principles, the wife of a not-very-successful engineer, you lived in exile [...] and stayed a cultural snob through it all. (1.1.38)

What is more eyebrow-raising is the suggestion of lesbianism in this friendship, a suggestion that in some early letters is uncomfortably explicit. (1.2.12)

John Greenleaf Whittier said she was the only girl he knew who could conduct a serious discussion of the latest North American Review while scrubbing her mother's floor. (1.1.45)

Within a week he had left for California [...] Clearly he went with the notion of "proving himself"—that was Grandfather's character. (1.2.79)

For it struck me after she finally went away [...] that I really would like to talk to somebody about my grandparents, their past. (1.3.67)

His character and his role were already Western, he had only that way of asserting himself against the literary gentility with which her house was associated in his mind. (1.5.40)