Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!
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It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.
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Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
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In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?
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Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
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The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.
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I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.
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You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
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Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
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It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!
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When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.