Quotes from Harriet Evans

Their marriage was based on silence these days. More and more. What they didn't say was everything, and what they did, inconsequential.

I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on

We had loads in common but we just didn't see the world in the same way.

Alone in her apartment, writing or thinking on her own, everything was always clear. It was talking aloud, interacting with people that tripped her up: It was reality she found difficult

London eats up pretty girls, you know...

windows, shouting, 'There's a huge dead

How wonderful, to have lived in so many places.' He found her enthusiasm infectious. 'It was. It is. The attitudes. The ideas. No one's . . . stuck.