Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“A sunny nature? A light heart? I have never been so insulted. Light-hearted is a short step from witless in my book.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“Thousands of those men and boys died here, and I have recently learned that their inhuman treatment was the intended policy of…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it -…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“Night-time train travel is wonderful again! No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

— Mary Ann Shaffer

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

— Mary Ann Shaffer