Dorabel Cassidy Quotes

“Though it was eighteen years since they had seen her, there was no mistaking Bella now. She might have walked out of the door last week, with her cheap cardboard case finished to look like leather, and her impudent copper hair puffed out in front. There was less hair now, and a good deal more flesh, but it was the same ruddy face and the same style of walk, Bella carried her curves like a queen.”
― Nan Shepherd, A Pass in the Grampians

“Dorabel was now as pleased as a half-crown. Everyone knew her. With her scarlet cap and bright yellow dress she had, and her great height, she walked about like a petrol pump in a land where houses and garments alike seemed to grow out of the colouring of the place; and she had notions about that house of hers that made a filling station seem demure. She thought the other houses about as elegant as turnip-tops, and was proud of the stir she made with hers.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain