Jamie HarrisonIf he’d explained his reasoning with humor, rather than with condescension, she might have stayed sane; now she’d grind his bones to make her bread.- The Widow Nash
About This Quote
The widow Nash is a character in the book, "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving. She says, "If he'd explained his reasoning with humor, rather than with condescension, she might have stayed sane; now she'd grind his bones to make her bread." The widow is trying to say that if her husband had explained things to her in a humorous and not condescending way she would have been able to keep her sanity and they would have been able to work together. A lot of marriages end because one person is always trying to prove the other wrong and the other person doesn't know how to deal with that. If he explained things to her in a humorous and not condescending way she would have been able to keep her sanity and they would have been able to work together.
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