Quotes by : Amanda Craig

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking....

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.....

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought....

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust;....

If you read fairy tales carefully, you’ll notice they are mostly about people who aren’t heroes.....

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces....

Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies....

It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying....

The idea that any of their offspring could possibly be accused of involvement in criminal activities....