Barbara

“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
― Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

“Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.”
― Jane Gardam, Last Friends

“done”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, To Seek and to Save: Daily Reflections on the Road to the Cross

“Imogen,” he said with forced patience, “you have plenty of occupations of your own, and you don’t care to do the things that give a great deal of pleasure to me – when I have time to do them. You don’t want to fish or shoot and you can’t drive my car, which would be a help to me sometimes. Am I to understand that you object to my having the companionship of another woman who can do these things?”
― Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare