Annabelle Thorpe > Quotes

“The landscape is unrecognisable to her now; the crumbling outbuildings and copses of trees look dark and furtive, the land between them a silent battleground, where returning soldiers and foreign fighters slip between the cypress trees like ghosts”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“Use your youth, girls. Squeeze every drop out of it, blaze as brightly as you can. It's over before you realize”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“Old enough to know right from wrong. Just not old enough to act on it”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“He has forgotten this too; the awkward intensity of a house without women; his father's clumsy attempts to be both parents, to fill a gap that would always remain unfillable”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“You know what the fascisti do to women who try to be independent, who don't want to marry and have a family. Lock them up. Call them mentally defective”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“An ungrateful friend is little more than an enemy with a smile on his face”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“Unexpectedly, a voice rises from the street below, something shouted in German, a word he doesn't recognise. He thinks of Sophia hurling glasses at the floor; there was something impressive, almost mesmerising in the fury that roared out of her”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“War is the enemy of love, cara - it tries to teach us that hate and brutality is all the world is capable of. To love at such a time is one of the most extraordinary acts of hope. The greatest of victories”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“This is what war does; breaks up families, pits brother against brother. Well, not with the Capaldis. Not while I'm alive to stop it happening”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“Grief does strange things to a body. But self-pity is like a bad lemon; bitter, hard on the tongue. It's a worthless indulgence. I won't tolerate it in others, and I certainly don't tolerate it in myself”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria