Top 15 Jo Baker Quotes (2024 Update)

Jo Baker Quote: “Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed.”

1. “Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed.”

Jo Baker Quote: “We do have rules here. We have responsibilities towards each other. This is not a free-for-all.”

2. “We do have rules here. We have responsibilities towards each other. This is not a free-for-all.”

Jo Baker Quote: “The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants’ corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic to hang her her new dress on the rail, just one of the many shadows that ebbed and tugged at the edges of the light.”

3. “The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants’ corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic to hang her her new dress on the rail, just one of the many shadows that ebbed and tugged at the edges of the light.”

Jo Baker Quote: “Work was not a cure; it never had been: it simply grew a skin on despair, and crusted over it.”

4. “Work was not a cure; it never had been: it simply grew a skin on despair, and crusted over it.”

Jo Baker Quote: “So young Collins was there to select one of the girls, as you’d choose an apple from a costermonger’s stall. A brisk look over the piled-up stock: one of the bigger ones, the riper ones – that one will do. They were all the same, after all, weren’t they? The were of good stock. All the same variety, from the same tree. Why bother looking any further, or making any particular scrutiny of the individual fruits?”

5. “So young Collins was there to select one of the girls, as you’d choose an apple from a costermonger’s stall. A brisk look over the piled-up stock: one of the bigger ones, the riper ones – that one will do. They were all the same, after all, weren’t they? The were of good stock. All the same variety, from the same tree. Why bother looking any further, or making any particular scrutiny of the individual fruits?”

Jo Baker Quote: “The ladies, who had condoled so thoroughly with her during her time of grief, found it rather more difficult to participate in her happiness, which takes a true and proper friend indeed.”

6. “The ladies, who had condoled so thoroughly with her during her time of grief, found it rather more difficult to participate in her happiness, which takes a true and proper friend indeed.”

Jo Baker Quote: “Other, dryer customers came and went, having just stepped out of their conveyances or popped down the street from their houses in the town. They left their umbrellas dripping at the door, and looked at her with that particular combination of sympathy and amusement that the soaked seem always to elicit in the dry.”

7. “Other, dryer customers came and went, having just stepped out of their conveyances or popped down the street from their houses in the town. They left their umbrellas dripping at the door, and looked at her with that particular combination of sympathy and amusement that the soaked seem always to elicit in the dry.”

Jo Baker Quote: “James had no intentions; he could not afford to have any; he could not afford to rope another person to his saddle. All he could do was keep his head down and get his work done.”

8. “James had no intentions; he could not afford to have any; he could not afford to rope another person to his saddle. All he could do was keep his head down and get his work done.”

Jo Baker Quote: “It is not, perhaps, an entirely happy situation after all, to gain something that has been wanted for long years. The object itself, once achieved, is often found not to be exactly as anticipated. It has perhaps become tired and worn over time; flaws that had been overlooked for years are now all too apparent. One finds one does not know what to do with it at all.”

9. “It is not, perhaps, an entirely happy situation after all, to gain something that has been wanted for long years. The object itself, once achieved, is often found not to be exactly as anticipated. It has perhaps become tired and worn over time; flaws that had been overlooked for years are now all too apparent. One finds one does not know what to do with it at all.”

Jo Baker Quote: “Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion.”

10. “Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion.”

Jo Baker Quote: “It had been a dreadful miscalculation, she saw that now: that all of them should be unhappy, so that he should not be disgraced.”

11. “It had been a dreadful miscalculation, she saw that now: that all of them should be unhappy, so that he should not be disgraced.”

Jo Baker Quote: “Jane Austen’s work was my first experience of grown-up literature, and has supplied a lifetime of pleasure: it’s the only book that, as an adult, I re-read.”

12. “Jane Austen’s work was my first experience of grown-up literature, and has supplied a lifetime of pleasure: it’s the only book that, as an adult, I re-read.”

Jo Baker Quote: “Mrs. Bennet was not one to tiptoe around the edges of disaster, with one eye to the abyss and another to her own comportment: she plunged headlong in, and as she fell, took pains to enumerate the discomforts and inconveniences of the fall.”

13. “Mrs. Bennet was not one to tiptoe around the edges of disaster, with one eye to the abyss and another to her own comportment: she plunged headlong in, and as she fell, took pains to enumerate the discomforts and inconveniences of the fall.”

Jo Baker Quote: “It was a sheet of pale brilliance that peeled swiftly away, sucked out of sight by some irresistible persuasion, leaving behind an expanse of silvery mud, miles and miles of it, trenched with glittering rills and scattered with dipping, wheeling, crying birds. Beyond the bay, the lake-country hills stood stark against the sky. They were deep blue, and still creased here and there with snow.”

14. “It was a sheet of pale brilliance that peeled swiftly away, sucked out of sight by some irresistible persuasion, leaving behind an expanse of silvery mud, miles and miles of it, trenched with glittering rills and scattered with dipping, wheeling, crying birds. Beyond the bay, the lake-country hills stood stark against the sky. They were deep blue, and still creased here and there with snow.”

Jo Baker Quote: “The intimacy of her name on his lips: the years fled like starlings.”

15. “The intimacy of her name on his lips: the years fled like starlings.”

Jo Baker Quote: “She wished the journey was over, but she did not want to arrive.”

16. “She wished the journey was over, but she did not want to arrive.”

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