Quotes from Barbara Trapido

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.

I am in general susceptible to style.

He was clad in stylish pale linen and had a squashy packet of Gallic fags jutting from his breast pocket.

How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.

He gains strength from the myth of his wife's incompetence.

Now we have a humanist's despair before the News,

Qué es la vida sino el tránsito de las espinillas a las arrugas en pos de la sabiduría?

It had ceased to bother me that Michele didn't believe a word that I said. It gave me the liberty to lie whenever I chose.

forgive me, since this isn't my cabbage patch

I pictured myself sitting by the fire and knitting the Celtic mists and shadowy pools into my cloth. I pictured Jonathan getting up from his typewriter and going out to split wood like a man in Ingmar Bergman, and the child, with woollen mittens flapping at its cuffs, tottering after him.

You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.

Here I am,' he said to himself, on that first day. 'A born-again vegetarian Zulu with a fake French passport and a pocket full of dollars'.

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