Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.

- Jo Baker

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

- Jo Baker

Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they …

- Jo Baker

It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anyt…

- Jo Baker