Quotes from Rachel Ferguson

I'm really quite efficient you know'. He shook his head over me. 'Too much conscience. You must find yourself very difficult to live with

Most people need some sort of illusion to help 'em along … but that knocks one pretty hard, doesn't it?

we were ourselves again, ready to toothcomb the universe.

we, from very liberty and reaction, were tending towards emptiness and eventual disintegration.

his illness had done this much, in wiping out his old scrupulousness; it was, I imagine, one of the many intimately personal castings-off which heaven alone knew how many other men on active service were practising.

In any case women are tougher, more adaptable, than men.

Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it's better to stay and wear it down.