Clare Boylan > Quotes

“Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.”
― Clare Boylan

“He was intrigued now, as when he had first met her, by her apparent lack of interest in him. 'Gertie, Gertie,' he said in humblest tones. 'I treated you badly.'

She peered at him rather rudely, as if trying to recollect what he was talking about. 'You were a stage on a journey,' she commented at last. 'Journeys are seldom comfortable.”
― Clare Boylan, Concerning virgins: A collection of short stories

“Those who have been in the grip of passion will know its suffocating strength. It shuts down all the normal senses, occludes judgement, leaves one feeling weak and fevered.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading”
― Clare Boylan and Charlotte Bronte