“endless regret or secret happiness…”

by Richard Subber | Nov 20, 2025 | Human Nature, Joys of reading, Language, Reflections

take time to share…

“In the life of each of us, I said to myself,

there is a place remote and islanded,

and given to endless regret or secret happiness…”

from 

Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories

by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

The Library of America

New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994

937 pages

p. 444

…sharing is what comes to my mind

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