11 quotes found
“The only time you were safe was when you were dead.”
“She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.”
“What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.”
“If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”
“She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.”
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality ...”
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorl...”
“She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound...”
“This Henry lived in Edinburgh, making him inaccessible and giving her something to do on the weekends 'Oh, just flying up to Scotland, Henry's taking me fishing,' which is the kind of thing she im...”
“Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.”
“And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-ol...”
