Kerry Barrett > Quotes

“I am successful, happy and confident. I can do anything. I can be anything. I am me.”
― Kerry Barrett, I Put A Spell On You

“these boys – because they were just boys, you know – were the same as one another and given half a chance they’d happily kick a ball about together. But instead, we’d put them in uniform and shoved guns at them and told them to kill each other.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Bookshop of Secrets

“She smiled over her shoulder at me. ‘I’m going to wear stockings that dogs don’t want to lick,’ she said.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Hidden Women

“I was no psychologist but I understood that this was down to our chaotic childhood. Whereas Immy and Andy had embraced the unpredictable nature of our upbringing, Miranda and I were more, well, clenched, about the whole thing.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Hidden Women

“Because women are always blamed for what men do.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Secrets of Thistle Cottage

“I was no psychologist but I understood that this was down to our chaotic childhood. Whereas Immy and Andy had embraced the unpredictable nature of our upbringing, Miranda and I were more, well, clenched,”
― Kerry Barrett, The Hidden Women

“People think strangers are the scary ones but they’re not. It’s the people you’re closest to you should be frightened of.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Girl in the Picture

“Nothing’s certain now, though, is it? Because of this blasted war.’ Bill arranged mugs on the tray, added the teapot and handed me the bottle of milk. ‘On the contrary,’ he said. ‘Nothing was ever certain. We’re just more aware of it now.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Bookshop of Secrets

“could see that. But I had to admit the composition and the colours were all Millais’s. I’d added my own twist,”
― Kerry Barrett, The Girl in the Picture

“I was pleased. My daughter had grown to have a stubborn nature and a mouth that often ran away with her, and while I admired her ferocity, it wasn’t always fun to be on the receiving end of it.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Secrets of Thistle Cottage

“life is just a series of compromises.”
― Kerry Barrett, The Bookshop of Secrets