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Quotes from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard — Eleanor Farjeon

1881–1965 England

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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

Every man's life (and … every woman's life), awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal … love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eleanor Farjeon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.