Kate Saunders > Quotes

“Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.”
― Kate Saunders, Bachelor Boys

“There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal.”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.”
― kate saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“Does your hip hurt much?” “Only when I laugh or fart,”
― Kate Saunders, Beswitched

“I hate the world sometimes," Anthea said. "The unfairness of it. I won't force you to see me if you don't want to - but nobody can stop me loving you, and I'll wait for you all my life if I have to.”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“A memory flashed back at me, of his willy bobbing about while he wrestled with his briefcase - well dignity and nudity aren't often seen together.”
― Kate Saunders, Bachelor Boys

“Either they fall down, or they make me look like Tintin," Ben complained. "It's all right for Fritz - he's the same shape as those plastic blokes in the window.”
― Kate Saunders, Bachelor Boys

“Ben sighed, his mouth crammed with biscuit. "You don't trust us at all, do you? You think we're going to whip out our knobs between courses and show you up.”
― Kate Saunders, Bachelor Boys

“That bird was a phoenix,” Demerara said. “You’ll know about them from those Henry Porter books.”
― Kate Saunders, The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix

“he prayed with them up to the very gallows if he could. ‘It’s the duty of any half-decent clergyman to walk into Hell itself,’ he used to say. ‘We’re needed most where God is least.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I WILL NOT BE A DINOSAUR POO!”
― Kate Saunders, The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix

“unfairness of”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“Mr Haywood is Ernie,’ the Lamb told Robert. ‘The one who thinks Anthea’s pretty.”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“The housekeeper, Mrs Craik, came”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide: The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries 1

“the moment he was through the grand front door. “OZ! OZ!” They hugged each other so hard they almost fell over; the happiness was incredible and the other voice fizzed between them like an electrical wire. “Hey, Oz!” He got a rough hug from Caydon. “You don’t look as if you’ve been tortured”
― Kate Saunders, The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

“Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing?”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“but some conventions cannot”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide: The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries 1

“This was a very parentish thing to say; parents didn’t understand that teachers never listened to explanations.”
― Kate Saunders, The Land of Neverendings

“Sometimes Emily was so lonely that it was like being invisible.”
― Kate Saunders, The Land of Neverendings

“Psammead of”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“PerTIsHUN to the STURveY!”
― Kate Saunders, The Land of Neverendings

“I know how it feels to have a comfortable world suddenly turn against you,’ I replied. ‘My husband died, and poverty made my sorrow ten times”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“The secret of my mincemeat was handed down to me by my dear mother. In a word, suet.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“And this fine young prince had fallen in love with a Nobody from Nowhere -- as princes sometimes do, though not as often as romantic tradition would have you believe.”
― Kate Saunders

“(People don’t seem to make Smoking Bishop nowadays: it’s a fragrant concoction of red wine, port wine and spices, and my beloved Matt was very fond of a glass directly after a chilly Matins; you must first stick a lemon with cloves and sugar-lumps, roast it beside a medium fire until caramelized, then place in your pan of wine to simmer gently for twenty minutes.)”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“Demerara.”
― Kate Saunders, The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

“something that made Oz and Lily cry,”
― Kate Saunders, The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop