Emily Howes > Quotes

“In one yes, a thousand nos are hiding.”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“It is a breathtaking kind of love I feel for my child.”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“Boys, Kate thinks, only have to worry about who is fastest because they never stop and look around them.”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“To act as you feel, whenever you like. That is a man’s freedom, whatever they may say about women.”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“There is a silence, as we sit together in the blackness. ‘Thank you for coming,’ she says. ‘Don’t say that. Of course I came. I will always come, Molly. Always.”
― Emily Howes, The Painter's Daughters

“unhappiness is a strange thing,”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“It is rather a thing to be alone,”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“Words are funny things.”
― Emily Howes, Mrs. Dickens

“I give him angry stares when no one is looking, which seem to surprise him, but do not surprise me, for I always feel angry now.”
― Emily Howes, The Painter's Daughters