How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I felt like asking her, if contemporary sexual attitudes are so much healthier than Grandmother's, how Grandmother managed to get through a marriage that lasted more than sixty years. (4.6.5)
There's nothing that Lyman hates more than the hippiefied counterculture that dominates the 1970s. You know the deal: "free love," "give peace a chance," and all that jazz. To him, it's just naive silliness: childishness disguised as intelligence. Of course, Lyman's perspective gets changed once he realizes that his grandparents' marriage wasn't so perfect, after all.
Quote #5
Like many another Western pioneer, he had heard the clock of history strike, and counted the strokes wrong. (7.3.2)
Oliver Ward was a real innovator. To put it into context, this would be like some dude trying to invent the Internet in 1920, or some lady trying to invent automobile travel back in 1776. In other words, Oliver was way ahead of the curve.
Quote #6
1970 knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube. (7.6.8)
And we're back again with your regularly scheduled Lyman rant. Did you miss him? Jokes aside, he's got a good point with this one because when's the last time you did nothing at all? When's the last time you went a whole day without tapping away at your iPhone? That's what we thought. In contrast, Susan Ward and company had nothing to distract them from their often traumatic lives.