“The Spring can be more painful than any other time of the year. Summer is lazy and indifferent. Autumn is demanding and invigorating. Winter is numb and self-contained, but Spring has none of the palliatives. Every emotional nerve is close… — 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 Image
“When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it’s just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one… — 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 Image
“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,” — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
