Lara

“She’s too old for change. Now, it’s all about comfort and routine and taking pleasure in tiny treats.”
― Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

“Having done the right thing was nothing like the consolation she had hoped. Without constant congratulation, virtue was a lonely business.”
― Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“A lifetime of quiet watchfulness had convinced her that the truth about people was seldom to be found in the things they freely admitted. There was always more below the surface than above.”
― Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures