Contact
Privacy
Book: The Wapshot Chronicle
Quotes of Book: The Wapshot Chronicle
TOP TAGS :dissociative-identity-disorderlikingbitternesspeachesdetectiveserotica-romancedigital-culturelinger

  1. John Cheever _ The Wapshot Chronicle

    These napkins are more holy than righteous," Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns.
    book-quotehoary-punsnapkins

  2. John Cheever _ The Wapshot Chronicle

    They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets.
    book-quote

  3. John Cheever _ The Wapshot Chronicle

    She was his potchke, his fleutchke, his notchke, his motchke, his everything that the speech of St. Botolphs left unexpressed. She was his little, little squirrel.
    book-quote

  4. John Cheever _ The Wapshot Chronicle

    I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell's sometime last summer.
    book-quote
Categories