Jenny Eclair > Quotes

“Makes it feel like they’re not just ahead of you in the race of life, but have actually lapped you.”
― Jenny Eclair, Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency

“When one is my size, one learns to avoid flimsy furniture. Wicker chairs and ancient deckchairs basically scream public humiliation”
― Jenny Eclair, Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency

“Barbara made an effort, but then Barbara had sod all else to do apart from think about food and clothes. No wonder the poor cow was so utterly barmy.”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving

“poor.”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving

“These rooms are like onions, she thinks, they have layer after layer of memories.”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving

“She is still inside me, Edwina decides, thinking of the Russian dolls she once owned. All the Edwinas are still in there, from lonely boarding-school girl to excitable art student, young wife, mother, widow – all her former selves are stacked one inside the other, right down to the tiniest baby-doll Edwina buried deep within her, the size of a monkey nut, she supposes.”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving

“That’s the trouble with being slightly deaf: you can’t always hear when you’re talking to yourself.”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving

“him out there, that he could dare to”
― Jenny Eclair, Moving