Nella Last > Quotes

“It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.”
― Nella Last

“She says she prays to God to strike Hitler dead. Cannot help thinking if God wanted to do that he would not have waited till Mrs. Helm asked him to do so.”
― Nella last, Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

“Odd how differently people look on home. To me it’s my real ‘core’ of life and living. I can always relax and read or sew happily if I’m on my own, and would like to have people in rather than go out looking for change. My husband has his mother’s deep horror of being in the house by himself, and only wanders around unhappily, looking out of windows, watching the clock and timing my return.”
― Nella Last, Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49

“I’ve asked if he wouldn’t feel happier if we slept together, Nella wrote of her husband on 10 June 1950, but he said he “liked to be free to toss and turn without disturbing you”, and I didn’t argue about it. To shut my bedroom door sometimes and begin to write or read quietly is a privilege when things haven’t gone smoothly in the day.”
― Nella Last, Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49