Jerry’s Father Quotes in The Chocolate War
"Hey, Dad."
"Yes, Jerry?"
"Were things really fine at the store today?"
His father paused near the kitchen doorway, puzzled. “What do you mean, Jerry?"
“I mean, every day I ask you how things are going and every day you say fine. Don't you have some great days? Or rotten days?”
“A drugstore's pretty much the same all the time, Jerry. The prescriptions come in and we fill them—and that’s about it.”
[…]
Was life that dull, that boring and humdrum for people? He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine, fine—not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
Jerry’s Father Quotes in The Chocolate War
"Hey, Dad."
"Yes, Jerry?"
"Were things really fine at the store today?"
His father paused near the kitchen doorway, puzzled. “What do you mean, Jerry?"
“I mean, every day I ask you how things are going and every day you say fine. Don't you have some great days? Or rotten days?”
“A drugstore's pretty much the same all the time, Jerry. The prescriptions come in and we fill them—and that’s about it.”
[…]
Was life that dull, that boring and humdrum for people? He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine, fine—not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
