Emily Critchley > Quotes

“A dilemma, my father used to say, is nothing but two bad options.”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“I have come to love the hustle and bustle, the way it is possible to lose yourself in a city, to walk anonymously through its crowded streets; the sense of freedom that accompanies the fact that no one knows your name, or who your mother is, or what you bought at the shop yesterday.”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“reluctantly,”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“Being forgetful is one of many entries on my mother’s long list of Edie’s Regrettable Personality Traits. They include shyness, a tendency to avoid eye contact in most kinds of social situations, and what my mother calls “a lack of womanly intuition.”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“I release the breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“The problem is, when you’ve got so much past behind you, it creeps into the present.”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“Amy looks at hers constantly. When I asked her about it, she said she “checks it” to see if anyone’s got in touch. How ridiculous. We don’t go to our front doors several times an hour just to check if someone is there, do we?”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon

“People don’t like to take breaks anymore, I’ve noticed. They have to keep busy, as if something terrible will happen to them if they stop. I”
― Emily Critchley, One Puzzling Afternoon