“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,” — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
“Even to be impaled by a happy fate makes you jerk against the knowledge of inevitability, of final commitment.” — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,” — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“Among the innumerable books on Addy’s shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: ‘What is moral is what you… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath -… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“It seems to me those are just the ones who have to do without, because, in the final analysis, they can. And men basically… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“Work, that supposed panacea, the great Taker-of-Your-Mind-Off, proved just about as totally useless and in fact irrelevant as those ‘Easy Childbirth’ theories are in… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
“That’s my whole trouble. I don’t seem capable of living for the moment. It’s as if the future threw back a shadow—a great black… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share
