Quotes About Antonia

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

By the time Domenica arrived at the Gothic Revival sandstone building on Queen Street, she had put out of her mind all thought of Antonia's torrid affair - at least she assumed it was torrid, and anyway, she wondered if there was any point in having an affair which was not torrid.

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

My first plan was to impress him with the commitment of my reviews. I found out a lot of statistics and waved them at him like breasts at the pub on Thursday.

Get out of here, Antonia. Now." There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it.

Y mira que le gustan las sonrisas de Antonia, con sus diez mil vatios de potencia, su capacidad de iluminar por completo la estancia.

A sign from the universe outside, meaning whatever Antonia wishes it to mean. Which is why the universe sends them to us, so that we can do what we want with them.

Um sinal do universo como qualquer outro, que significa aquilo que Antonia quiser que signifique. É para isso que o universo nos envia os sinais, para que façamos com eles aquilo que nos convém.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

I touched the Waterford glass with my finger: and in its ring I heard the echo of a voice saying You do not really want your wife back after all . I answered the voice in my heart: a bond of this kind is deeper and stronger than wanting or not wanting. Wherever I am in the world and whenever I am I shall always be Antonia.

It occurred to me as scandalous that Palmer and Antonia, after the scene in which I had taken part in the drawing-room, should have gone out to the opera. Antonia ought to have been waiting for me to come back. I resented this indifference to the tempo of my own drama.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.