Wendy Jones > Quotes

“Then there were her childhood book: Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, What Katy did next, Pollyanna - stories about girls who were good. All Pollyanna had ever done wrong was ruin her parasol. Beth in Little Women was so perfect she was only fit for heaven. Why were girls in novels exemplary, almost saintly? Grace preferred adventure stories, histories and romances about what to do if you were damned and female, tales about women who were kind, likeable and believable, who escaped unpunished. No thin Quakers with lace caps. No beatific consumptives coughing delicately. No unloved, eternally jolly orphans. Grace craved books about girls like herself: good women, normal women in a world bigger and more powerful than themselves.”
― Wendy Jones

“It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.”
― Wendy Jones, The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

“Gossip went on forever. As Mr. Auden said, ‘There is always a great deal of interest in a door behind which something is happening’—but gossip belonged in the realms of a small and uncompassionate world, and Wilfred had seen that the world was larger and more multiple than could ever be described and explained by tittle-tattle.”
― Wendy Jones, The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals

“A man could learn all he needed to know about women if he went to the Narberth Rugby Football Club bar for a drink and listened.”
― Wendy Jones, The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals

“An art college tip is probably the repository for some of the ugliest objects on earth because they aren't only ugly objects, they're ugly objects that are trying to be art.”
― Wendy Jones, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl