Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
BERYL BAINBRIDGEMoonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
More Beryl Bainbridge Quotes
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There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course – the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled
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There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
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When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
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Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
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What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
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Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.
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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
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no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
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It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
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It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
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I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children – except to bring in the money.
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Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
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The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
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The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
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nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.
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