Quotes from Elizabeth Jane Howard

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.

Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Wandering down the street in an aimless sort of way, cold too, in a dress from last night that made young men stop and stare in the street, Charity Hill found herself hating the single life for the very first time.

Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?

Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

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!

She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.

Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!