Quote by Lynne Reid Banks

“Even to be impaled by a happy fate makes you jerk against the knowledge of inevitability, of final commitment.”

— Lynne Reid Banks

“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

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

“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,”

— Lynne Reid Banks

“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

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

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

— Lynne Reid Banks

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

“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

Innocence is ignorance.

— Lynne Reid Banks

“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

“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