“Gilbert: How Clark Gable turn every women's head so? Foolish young English girls would see a movie star in every GI with the same Yankee-doodle voice. Glamour in US privates named Jed, Buck or Chip, with their easy-come-by-gifts and Uncle… — Andrea Levy Copy Share
“No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.” — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just… — Andrea Levy Copy Share
“Gilbert: How Clark Gable turn every women's head so? Foolish young English girls would see a movie star in every GI with the same Yankee-doodle voice. Glamour in US privates named Jed, Buck or Chip, with their easy-come-by-gifts and Uncle Sam sweet-talk. Dreamboats in hooligans from Delaware or Arizona with fingernails that still carried soil from home, and eyes that… — Andrea Levy Copy Share
“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word. — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top--the twinkling electric… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain” — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance” — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
