Imogen Clark > Quotes

“He never wanted any of my friends round. I had plenty of friends when we first got married, but if they came to visit when he was at home, he’d be rude to them and make them feel uncomfortable. So, eventually, they made excuses and stopped coming.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“But remember, before you rush to judgement, that all mothers are ultimately driven by the same engine, despite their differing makes and models. We are all just doing what we think is best for our children.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“Grief was so difficult to deal with after the initial shock had passed. Once the funeral was over and done with, you were simply expected to return to normal and not subject those around you to any outward displays of pain.”
― Imogen Clark, Where The Story Starts

“How did people get through the death of their loved ones unscathed? It felt like an impossible task to her, and one that she was totally unprepared for.”
― Imogen Clark, Where The Story Starts

“honesty came in many hues between the absolutes of black and white, and she imagined that even honest people generally found a shade of grey that suited them to fit the circumstances.”
― Imogen Clark, An Unwanted Inheritance

“What I didn’t love was the person I became when I was in the shade that he cast around him.”
― Imogen Clark, An Unwanted Inheritance

“So many fabulous-looking lives are fake. People only share the good parts and skip over the bad.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“And what she does may not be what she would choose to do in an ideal world; life is all about compromise, after all.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“evangelical”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“Gender-defining though the arrangement was, their lives were symbiotic, each one vital to the well-being of the other. It was a true partnership.”
― Imogen Clark, Reluctantly Home

“I’ve thought about a lot over the years. I’m certain all mothers do, as they try to process the crushing guilt they feel for the mistakes they believe they have made.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“wheelbarrow”
― Imogen Clark, A Borrowed Path

“I feel like I am being pulled so tight that the slightest bit of extra tension will be all it takes for me to snap.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards at Christmas

“gave her. Melissa wiped the tears”
― Imogen Clark, Where The Story Starts

“But how things had changed. She could hardly believe that what women of her generation had just accepted as a fact of life was now so vilified. Women had stepped forward, drawing strength and courage from one another and then from the sheer number of them. She was astonished at the men who had been brought down, men she knew about but had never been able to discuss, other than with other women and behind closed doors. It was incredible.”
― Imogen Clark, Reluctantly Home

“I’d got the impression that her family weren’t that close. It was ironic really, because if I’d had any family, other than the kids of course, I’d have made it my business to keep us all tight, a little ball of strength safe against whatever the outside world could hurl at us.”
― Imogen Clark, Where The Story Starts

“Maggie always did this--- asked the question that Angie would rather not know the answer to.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“her”
― Imogen Clark, Where The Story Starts

“they both knew that there was no point asking Felicity to actually pick anything up herself unless you were prepared for a three-ring circus of excuses and complaints.”
― Imogen Clark, The Last Piece

“There was something about old friends, she thought, a special depth of understanding that you never quite managed to reach with friends made later in life. The people who knew you when you were learning to know yourself had a more honest picture. They’d seen you when you were not yet entirely formed, when your outer shell hadn’t quite sealed around you. As a result, there was less pretending. Friends like that would never let you get away with the stories that you could spin around yourself with newer people. And even though that could be scarily exposing, it was also good to be around them.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“Would he suddenly wake up one day and discover he was dead?”
― Imogen Clark, An Unwanted Inheritance

“Piccolo ma zeppo di storia medievale. Meraviglioso».”
― Imogen Clark, La felicità nei giorni di pioggia

“Daniel Jackson, was Hope’s boyfriend.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“smesso di provare a curare il microbo che era convinta di essersi presa con diete macrobiotiche”
― Imogen Clark, La felicità nei giorni di pioggia

“you never quite managed to reach with friends made later in life. The people who knew you when you were learning to know yourself had a more honest picture. They’d seen you when you were not yet entirely formed, when your outer shell hadn’t quite sealed around you. As a result, there was less pretending”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“As far as I know. The place”
― Imogen Clark, Reluctantly Home

“There’s nothing from this decade worth playing,’ he replied.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“Every mother has to work this out for herself. She must decide what she thinks is best for her children at any given moment. Yet this decision cannot help but be coloured by so many other factors: her own childhood, her financial position, her partner’s views, her mental fortitude. And what she does may not be what she would choose to do in an ideal world; life is all about compromise, after all.”
― Imogen Clark, Postcards From a Stranger

“She had learned that years ago – if you cried, or showed any kind of weakness, then someone else would step in and take advantage whilst your mind was elsewhere.”
― Imogen Clark, Impossible to Forget

“Their brother, Peter, weak-chinned and lily-livered, had found himself an equally feeble wife and together they had created a neat ‘one of each’ family, which seemed to work well for them but which was Evelyn’s definition of hell. Peter,”
― Imogen Clark, Reluctantly Home