“The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.”
Quotes by Edith Summers Kelley
“...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.”
“Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent. "Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.”
Edith Summers Kelley was a Canadian-born author whose literary contributions were primarily shaped by her experiences in the United States. Born in Toronto to Scottish immigrants, she graduated from t...