Sally Beauman > Quotes

“distinguished scholars and”
― Sally Beauman, The Visitors: A Novel

“You see a place better with your mind's eye, anyway. Imagination gives you twenty-twenty vision.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“You're a good girl. Willful of course-always have been, always will be. Mind of your own, a bit too damn independent (to my way of thinking) and secretive too-play your cards close to your chest.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“Truth can damage, and deceptions can be a blessing.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“Women are the gossips, the seers, the story-tellers. One of these days I'll tell him: pay attention, Tom dear, because it's women who are the keepers of secrets.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale: A Novel

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face, obviously.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“When people speak of 'charm' they can mean something synthetic-a mere manipulative technique. I think it's a gift. It is never conscious and is always natural. It comes welling up from a person and its effects, akin to magic, are irresistible.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“That’s what the British do, you know. They accommodate, and then they assimilate. It’s very effective. It’s their way of disarming the opposition, and it works.”
― Sally Beauman, Destiny

“The sun glinted on Max's buttons and buckles; his boots shone like chestnuts. A revolver in a holster. Brown eyes and a handsome face. The son and heir. The sun and air. I look at him, and I thought, Aha!”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale: A Novel

“There is only one true legitimacy, and it's bestowed by love, not male lineage.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale: A Novel

“There's a chemical reaction between the words on the page (which are never inert) and the state of mind of the reader (which can be, unfortunately).”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale

“...marriage was like entering a safe harbor, more like hearing out to the open sea. Conditions are unpredictable. I'm pulled this way and that by the most powerful currents. To love and to believe that one's loved in return, to feel great joy, but to be assailed by a lover's doubts and fears.”
― Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale