Trisha Ashley > Quotes

“There are more men lurking in sheds in my garden than in any D.H. Lawrence novel.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“Tish, help me! I’ve cut my wrist on the damned glass – it’s pouring blood – probably an artery! Let me in before I bleed to death!’
‘Go and bleed over the rose bushes, they’re supposed to thrive on it,’ I suggested heartlessly. He was by now directly underneath me and I couldn’t see any sign of draining arteries.
‘You heartless bitch!’ he raged, which was more like the James I’d come to know and didn’t love.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“Who needs men when they can have chocolate?
Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“In some parts of North-east England, a man would rather kill himself overtaking on a blind bend at seventy miles an hour than drive a hundred yards behind a woman.”
― Trisha Ashley, Every Woman For Herself

“at the WI Markets,’ I said regretfully.”
― Trisha Ashley, Wedding Tiers

“Tips for Southern Visitors, No. 5 People will be quite kind to you when they realise you are from the South, because you can’t help it.”
― Trisha Ashley, Every Woman For Herself

“And evidently it was a well-known fact that a single vicar, in possession of a modest fortune, must be in need of a wife.”
― Trisha Ashley, Chocolate Wishes

“I looked at him curiously. ‘I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?’ ‘I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.’ ‘I don’t think I’ve come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,’ I mused. ‘Probably not: I made it up.’ ‘Maybe you should write it?’ I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.”
― Trisha Ashley, The House of Hopes and Dreams

“been made to Preciousss over the last few days, as a stream of”
― Trisha Ashley, The Christmas Invitation

“and using as edging some of the small stack of old bricks I found under a hummock of ivy in the corner. Another bed was earmarked for my baby Brown Turkey fig tree and I hoped the plum tree in the middle – if it was a plum – would burst into leaf and fruit eventually. It was all very exciting – to me, at any rate! And all the exercise was good for me too, because I had to go and soak the aches away in the bath afterwards, lying like a slightly strange Ophelia among a scattering of dried attar of roses-scented geranium leaves. The nicest thing about living in Sticklepond was that Poppy could drop in much more often, after meetings or whenever she had”
― Trisha Ashley, Wedding Tiers / Sowing Secrets / Chocolate Wishes

“You have to watch them all the time,’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“I’m terribly sorry, Fergal!’
‘What for? I’m beginning to feel as if it’s mine, too!”
― Trisha Ashley

“He let me go so suddenly I staggered. ‘So you settled for respectable dullness, Angel, while I settled for—’
‘Disreputable excitement!’ I finished for him, rather tartly. ‘And I don’t know why you think my life is dull – especially since we moved here.’ (That was true at least!) ‘Anyway, I’d rather have dullness than be a hanger-on on the fringes of the sort of life you lead.’
‘You know nothing about the sort of life I lead.”
― Trisha Ashley, Good Husband Material

“I’d prefer not to kiss a dog.”
― Trisha Ashley, The Christmas Invitation

“Actually, Lacey did, some time ago,”
― Trisha Ashley, A Christmas Cracker

“Henry,”
― Trisha Ashley, A Christmas Cracker

“Se há uma coisa que a minha vida anterior me ensinou foi que, quando tudo muda, temos de seguir em frente e nunca podemos voltar para trás e ficar à espera de que as coisas sejam as mesmas.”
― Trisha Ashley, A Winter's Tale

“I treated that like a sort of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, which is something most women are good at since life is a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle containing several trick two-sided pieces.”
― Trisha Ashley, The Magic of Christmas

“What are you doing tonight?’ ‘Sex, drugs, tattooing our arms with old syringes off the street, that kind of thing,’ he said good-naturedly.”
― Trisha Ashley, The Magic of Christmas

“A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,’ I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)”
― Trisha Ashley

“One Woman’s Fight Against the Big C”
― Trisha Ashley, Every Woman For Herself

“because of it being a bank holiday.”
― Trisha Ashley, Creature Comforts

“I’m terribly sorry, Fergal.”
“What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.”
― Trisha Ashley

“No word from Max saying whether he was definitely going to come and see me, let alone what time and for how long. As usual he just took it for granted that I would hang about the house all day waiting for him. Clearly nature intended him to be a delivery man, not a university lecturer.”
― Trisha Ashley, A Good Heart is Hard to Find