Celia Dale > Quotes

“But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it.”
― Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

“Janice watched him go with astonishing regret”
― Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing

“Like a child, she would not see beyond the demolished walls of her soap bubble which had encased her in its iridescence, promising scarves of brilliant colours, perfume, fine stockings, cosmetics, bracelets, rich warm cardigans, petticoats with frills and inset lace. Tablets of soap, bed socks and two handkerchiefs were weapons piercing her with old age.”
― Celia Dale, A Helping Hand

“There’s a lot of people would say the same if they weren’t all hypocrites. Old people are just a nuisance.’ ‘It’s a good thing we don’t all think like that, dear. Josh and me are glad to give a helping hand.”
― Celia Dale, A Helping Hand

“But I don’t know why they do it. They seem kind, they take care of her – but they don’t care for her.’ ‘I’ll tell you something. The English are kind but they’re not warm. Now us, we’re warm, we have heart. The Italians will do very bad things but always from the heart, without shame, without pretence. The English don’t do bad things but they’re cold. You don’t get to know them, never in a hundred years. But in all that time they don’t do one bad thing. This is a land to be safe in – but also sometimes dead.”
― Celia Dale, A Helping Hand