Jane Davis > Quotes

“The fortunate people in the world - the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind - are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and authors are perhaps the most important elements in its composition. (Churchill)”
― Jane Davis, Half-truths & White Lies

“For two days, fire raged four times hotter than the surface of the sun, until there was nothing left to burn.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“The fortunate people in the world - the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind - are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and authors are perhaps the most important elements in its composition.(Churchill)”
― Jane Davis, Half-truths & White Lies

“imagine somebody exactly like you on a small island somewhere, and that you are writing for them and them alone. Find simple ways to say what you feel. Give your words room to breathe.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Let the Cry-babies Howl! It’s GREAT Britain Again.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“The soft thud of heavy heads on mulched bark, one after another. To Lucy, the sound of each impact was amplified: great timpani struck with felt-tipped drumsticks, bouncing off the low ceiling of a basement jazz club.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted. “Everything was in place, waiting for the word. It was dangerously close to becoming another Hiroshima.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“There’s no one more dangerous than someone who believes they’re doing God’s work.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Acting’s my living, but activism keeps me alive’.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“A small core glowed bright within Lucy. She had swallowed the moon.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Not everything that falls within the law is right. Don’t be trapped into thinking it is.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Like a lollipop?” Seeing her hesitate, he added, “Unless you’ve made your own banner.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“the Prime Minister of Fiji awarded each of the twenty-four surviving veterans three thousand pounds, saying, ‘Fiji is not prepared to wait for Britain to do the right thing.’ Let me repeat that: Britain is not prepared to do the right thing.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Roy Prescott of Burton upon Trent was the first British soldier to be awarded compensation by the US government. He received forty thousand pounds under the US Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“Don’t mistake the kind of person you’d like to be for the kind of person you are.”
― Jane Davis, My Counterfeit Self

“You might find a lace doily under a cut-glass fruit bowl on your granny’s sideboard, but you’d be shocked to learn this was a remnant of the micro-dress she got married in at the registrar’s office you’re walking past.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“If you cannot read all your books... let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony of this weekly torture, so Belinda added, “And then we have to read it out. In front of the whole class,” for emphasis.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“Not all closed eye is sleeping, or open eye is seeing.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“Choice can only happen when preferences aren’t outweighed by need.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“Belinda clung to the smallest nuggets of information, knowing they were vital parts of her flat-pack assembly kit, for which the instructions would arrive any day now,”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“What she feared the most was that her life would remain the same.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“Understand this: people generally deserve the lies they’re told.”
― Jane Davis, Second Chapter

“You’re so lucky to have a mummy who gets here on time to pick you up from school.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“that is how an uninvited guest makes a stir on arriving at a ball. Underdress, and everyone else’s finery looks ridiculous.”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“auditioning for the opening credits of a Bond film.” “Now, that sounds glamorous.” “Trained dancers, they advertised for. Then they had us all strip and bounce up and down on trampolines”
― Jane Davis, An Unchoreographed Life

“All the time that she was trying to say goodbye, I was furious with her for not trying harder to get better. I thought she should do it for me. I didn’t want to have to be proud of her. I just wanted her there when I got home from school.”
― Jane Davis, Second Chapter

“The hole someone leaves behind can be greater than the space they occupy in life.”
― Jane Davis, I Stopped Time

“All the time that she was trying to say goodbye, I was furious with her for not trying harder to get better.”
― Jane Davis, Second Chapter

“Something so small that people think you’re weak, when all along you know you’ve taken more than they could ever stand.”
― Jane Davis, A Funeral for an Owl