| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 917 | View more quotes about better">Better to squirm in a tavern, better to trudge behind an army as one of its collared camp followers, better to be harnessed to a peasant's plow, wary of his lash, than to languish in the garden! If I were a flower, let me blossom in the fields, or among paving stones, not in the garden. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 914 | I was not insensitive to such things. |
| 7 | 915 | Indeed, I was much afraid of them. |
| 7 | 916 | But still, on the whole, even so, I wanted to be out of the garden. |
| 7 | 917 | Better to squirm in a tavern, better to trudge behind an army as one of its collared camp followers, better to be harnessed to a peasant's plow, wary of his lash, than to languish in the garden! If I were a flower, let me blossom in the fields, or among paving stones, not in the garden. |
| 7 | 918 | I wanted to be outside, where I could see, and, yes, be seen, where I could actively and visibly be what I was, serving and loving. |
| 7 | 919 | Better a steel collar in the street than one of gold in the garden! "I shall call the guards!" wept Aynur. |
| 7 | 920 | But she did not do so. |