Norma Curtis > Quotes

“Now he knew that character was not fixed. It was malleable and it depended on circumstances. Being civilised wasn't inherent in any man. it was a luxury of the fortunate”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“Maggie was acutely sensitive to her own feelings whilst being completely insensitive about others”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“If you're going to be estranged from someone, you can't be half-hearted about it, you've got to go all out and put your heart and soul into it and hate them passionately for the rest of your life”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“Truth could be a burden. Was it better to be seen through the prism of pity, or misunderstood for hiding the truth?”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“But it's against their job description to let you die happily. It's against the law. You've got to live miserably instead”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“It's a shame because it's a beautiful place. Peaceful. A house doesn't like to be empty. It loses faith in itself”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“Everything had been taken away from them: their freedom, their families, their possessions, their looks, their pride, their self-respect, their free will, their health. All they had left of themselves was their identity, and without that...”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“You know when you love, or don't love, and you know when you're loved or not loved. If you don't recognise it, it's because it's not there.”
― Norma Curtis, The Bridge Between Friends

“She felt anxious. She wanted to talk to Maggie, too, and she hoped she could find the right words, but even now some things came out wrong, or too abruptly, as if her tongue had a malicious life of its own”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“Hedi was a good example of survival - and what Thea had learned from Hedi's story was that, sometimes, in the worst times, survival was nothing more than a matter of trudging through the darkness until the sun rose again”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“It was the nature of stories, she supposed, that they became a part of your own experience in the listening of them”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway

“car.”
― Norma Curtis, The Captain's Wife

“Her long-hidden memories had been stored away all this time like linen in a trunk, their colours vivid and untouched by age. Or were they spoiled and moth-eaten, smelling of neglect? Hard to know”
― Norma Curtis, The Hideaway