Jan Casey > Quotes

“I tried the marrow jam tart yesterday in Halls and it was atrocious,’ George said. ‘The chap I was sitting next to described it as “one of the foulest dishes of food within human history”.”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“Many days have wonderful moments within them.”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“no newspaper article or radio announcement would tell them that Germany was to blame. That was not what the people were meant to believe, although they must have known, in their hearts, what the truth of the matter was. Or perhaps they didn’t; they might know, or only want to know, what they were fed by the regime.”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“all she saw was a small herd of cud-chewing kine, observing her with non-judgemental curiosity,”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“But another part was appalled to think that she would ever consider war as routine or anything other than a heinous aberration.”
― Jan Casey, Women at War

“I told him I wanted to wait until he came back to do things properly.’ She was choking up and Evelyn fished a hanky from her pocket. ‘Not for the dress, or the cake or the toast and speeches. Not for the ring or the honeymoon. For Dad.”
― Jan Casey, The Women of Waterloo Bridge

“Alec’s.”
― Jan Casey, The Women of Waterloo Bridge

“Rome was taken by the Allies”
― Jan Casey, The Women of Waterloo Bridge