Mary Grand > Quotes

“It was strange to be outside on a summer’s evening. Rachel breathed in the scent of the delicate white flowers on the star jasmine and looked up at the sky. She saw what at first she thought was a bird, then realised it was a bat, and beyond that, in the sky, she saw thousands of stars.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“These people, who outside dog walking would not socialise, shared and supported each other in quite a special way. Rachel had never seen anything like it, but she had enjoyed their company, found it easy and relaxing.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.” Gandhi.”
― Mary Grand, A Christmas Murder

“Each morning she slammed the front door. Beth was glad she didn’t have to teach her.”
― Mary Grand, The House Party

“She sat back down, and they all waited in silence in that timeless world you enter when you go into a hospital.”
― Mary Grand, The Island

“It’s complicated, Mum. I’m sorry, but I knew if I’d talked to you about it, I’d never have had the nerve to leave. But for lots of reasons it wasn’t”
― Mary Grand, The Island

“It had been one of those nights when sleep had been more exhausting than being awake.”
― Mary Grand, The Island

“Really, Rachel. It’s old news. And Alex won’t be interested. She’s not even a proper journalist. She does the animal column, obsessed with dogs. I remember her seeing the story. She said she had no time for the man. He’d raised some ludicrous idea about people not being allowed to have more than one dog or something.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“Oh, silly me. Lottie is Olive’s dog. You must have seen her: pretty little black cocker spaniel. Mind you, what Olive’s son thought he was doing getting his mother a dog last Christmas, I don’t know. Crazy with her health problems; and where is he now?  Scarpered off to live in Australia.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“Sunday 20 August 1995, 10.30 p.m., I was struck by lightning, but I survived, and now I am standing tall.”
― Mary Grand, The Island

“believe in loyalty as well, but that doesn’t mean I have to accept lies.”
― Mary Grand, The House Party

“A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“As Rachel walked along the beach she realised that, because of the dogs, two strangers had chatted, found out quite a lot about each other, but never exchanged names, and may well never see each other again.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“The truth doesn’t go away. It sits there patiently, waiting for someone to stumble across it.”
― Mary Grand, The House Party

“Instead”
― Mary Grand, The House Party

“someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.’ She looked”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“Rachel, determined to become invisible, wore no make up, had cut her shoulder length brown hair short and hid her trim figure under a baggy shirt dress. Sarah simply wore again the skirt and t shirt that she had flung over the chair the night before and had yet to brush her hair.”
― Mary Grand, Catching the Light

“You have chosen the path of darkness.”
― Mary Grand, Free to Be Tegan: Free from the cult...to find love, to be herself

“Like a Tardis, the lodge seemed much bigger inside than it appeared on the outside.”
― Mary Grand, The Island

“But she allowed the thought to snuggle in the back of her mind, like a hedgehog hibernating for the winter.”
― Mary Grand, The Island