Kylie

“This is the rule I have for my salons also. I do not care what your interests are—tennis or architecture or playing the bassoon—as long as you have one.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“for all she resents the unfair advantages given to the opposite sex, she does not want to be a man, she only wants it not to matter that she is a woman.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“Flossie finds that letting go of wishes is not always a relief, more a parting. The wish still exists, it has simply taken another road. She can sometimes see it, over in the distance, waving from a high hill. The trick, the task, is to continue on her path, even so.”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

“The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill running through it, for it is exactly this thinning of the ordinary that allows the unordinary through. How can it be that she loves this murky, blighted and pockmarked England more than she loved its peaceful green predecessor? Because she can drive a car through it, in a uniform; because she can be with a man in it, without marriage;”
― Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre