Eliza Graham > Quotes

“The world depends on some of us refusing to be the same as everyone else.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“The world depends on some of us refusing to be the same as everyone else.’ He watched her stride back towards the house.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“nursing”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“into the house. I felt more relaxed now I wasn’t dwelling on myself and my past. I was thinking about how Benny must have felt when he’d first arrived in England.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“Certain he wouldn’t”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“But you could laugh and not really be happy.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“put tradesmen’s cards and cards from distant acquaintances,’ Smithy retorted. ‘Family and old friends”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“Act like a Partisan, not a pampered middle-class girl. Do not let this setback prevent you from striking again and again at the enemy.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“flagstones replacing the old parquet floor might have been there for centuries. What had I expected – that the house would somehow remember what had happened on”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“I pray I retain the distinct edges of my personality and am not blurring into a shadow of myself.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“invaded Kosovo first, but now they’d gone. Was some Nazi living in their old home, ill-treating the mine workers and standing out on the terrace at night, admiring the stars and smelling the scent of the last roses of the year, roses Maud’s father had planted? He scribbled something down. ‘We carried out some research into the mine and those who worked there.’ So that’s how they’d traced her? Had he come looking for her in the nightclub? How had he known she’d be there? He put the cap on his fountain pen.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“Egyptian rain always seemed to have a particularly dense and wetting quality to it.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“water, watching us as we set off. She had taken”
― Eliza Graham, Another Day Gone

“How was it that she, Maud, who dealt with appointments and prescriptions, was having this conversation about parachute drops and landings?”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“salt-and-oil air that rasped his throat. Where were the little kids he’d looked after on the voyage? A woman in nurse’s uniform was already steering them away.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“An elderly major improves my chess on afternoons when the Kaiser’s artillery isn’t shelling him in a Somme trench.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“No matter how bad things are, there’s always the chance that something good will happen.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“I trekked across wartime Yugoslavia with a map and compass. But now the London Underground is hostile territory.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“To Bari,”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“cake in Cairo that ever flummoxed”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“I’m going to try hard to be reasonable. The mad woman will be rational.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“Harwich, his stomach had stopped heaving. He stood at the top of the gangplank, took in deep breaths of the salt-and-oil air that rasped his throat. Where were the little kids he’d looked after on the voyage? A woman in nurse’s uniform was already steering them away. Someone pushed him gently down the gangplank. It looked different, England: the cars, dockers, buildings. People were smiling at them, even the policemen in their tall helmets and capes. One of them was holding a small girl’s hand, picking up her suitcase, snow falling on them. All very foreign. All very safe. He had to get the hell out. He turned around. He’d hide on the boat. But there was no fighting the tide of children streaming down the gangplank. Boys cursed him and girls tutted as he shoved into them. He gave up and let them push him down to dry land. Not that it was very dry. It had obviously rained here. And now it was snowing, white flakes dissolving into the black ground. Everything swayed as Benny walked along the quay. Perhaps it took a while to get used to being on land again. The English dockers were shouting in that up-and-down, up-and-down language he couldn’t understand. HARWICH, he read on a sign. Then they were on a bus, the air thick with the reek of long journeys and farewells”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“The ceremony ran equally smoothly, Robert and Maud reciting their vows without a slip, smiling at one another as they did so. With practice, acting your assumed role will seem natural.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“moggy”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“both.”
― Eliza Graham, The Midwife's Promise

“His mother had been like that: kinder than most of the other mothers, a believer in enjoying life.”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“doorbell. Sarah, the housekeeper, opened the front door and let me in. I heard myself exchanging pleasantries with”
― Eliza Graham, The One I Was

“My solicitor now is a young woman who inherited me. Most of my knowledge of the law as applied to families, missing children, wills and trusts is drawn from Dickens and may not be much help.”
― Eliza Graham, The Lines We Leave Behind

“coursing through my veins.”
― Eliza Graham, Blitz Kid