Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from What Maisie Knew.
Family Quotes
[…] not for any good they could do her, but for the harm they could, with her unconscious aid, do to each other. (Preface.5)
Youth Quotes
The child was provided for, thanks to a crafty godmother, a defunct aunt of Beale's, who had left her something in such a manner that the parents could appropriate only the income. (Preface.6)
Education Quotes
Her first term was with her father, who spared her only in not letting her have the wild letters addressed to her by her mother: he confined himself to holding them up at her and shaking them, whil...
Innocence Quotes
This was odd justice in the eyes of those who still blinked in the fierce light projected from the tribunal—a light in which neither parent figured in the least as a happy example to youth and in...
Home Quotes
The child was provided for, thanks to a crafty godmother, a defunct aunt of Beale's, who had left her something in such a manner that the parents could appropriate only the income. (Preface.6)
Abandonment Quotes
The child was provided for, thanks to a crafty godmother, a defunct aunt of Beale's, who had left her something in such a manner that the parents could appropriate only the income. (Preface.6)