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Joanna Trollope QUOTES

Joanna Trollope QUOTES

1 " Beneath her Marks and Spencer jersey, her heart sometimes called him darling, and after two glasses of Liebfraumilch, lover. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Choir

2 " If I could only meet Sally in the silent reading room of the public library, it wouldn’t make any difference. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Choir

3 " I feel at the moment I can't complete, that I've become smug and pissy and I Haven't a sense of Humor. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Men and the Girls

4 " Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. "

― Joanna Trollope

5 " William got up and went over to the window. Outside, the autumn fields lay pleasingly striped with stubble and speckled with partridges. "

― Joanna Trollope

6 " She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that; she squeezed every drop of living out of all the elements that mattered to her. It made her careless sometimes, of course it did, but it was a wonderfully rich and rapt way to be. "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense and Sensibility

7 " We’re so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we’re seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair. "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense & Sensibility

8 " You’re stuck with yourself, so you might as well try and be someone you can stand to live with. "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense & Sensibility

9 " You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. "

― Joanna Trollope

10 " Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous she was, the more she herself seemed to get punished? "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense & Sensibility

11 " We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and we often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us, to make us see that our reaction to what we can't choose and what we can is what shapes our lives. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Rector's Wife

12 " Or was she going to be sensible, reliable, patient Elinor who never put her own feelings first because -- let's face it -- she didn't have any worth considering in the first place, did she? "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense and Sensibility

13 " The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that is. "

― Joanna Trollope , Daughters-in-Law

14 " In my experience... the danger of things getting out of hand is there whenever anyone opens their mouths. "

― Joanna Trollope , Second Honeymoon

15 " They both got tired in term time, up for daily rehearsals, in and out of the cathedral all week for extra practices, Saturday afternoons without fail, seven sung services a week, school, homework. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Choir

16 " She’s made up her mind about missing him, like she’s made up her mind about giving up her course. She won’t let herself despair about things she can’t have, and doesn’t waste her energies longing for things like I do. She thinks before she feels, Ma, you know she does. I expect she does sort of miss Ed, in her way. "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense & Sensibility

17 " To her amazement, the baby, even at this stage, was a fact, and not a choice of any kind. She "

― Joanna Trollope , Second Honeymoon

18 " Nicholas went to choral evensong on the Sunday, and could have wept. They sang part of a Tallis motet and he thought, If the time comes when nobody can hear this sound anymore, it will be the end. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Choir

19 " The Bishop was capable of anger, but he was not capable of hate. "

― Joanna Trollope , The Choir

20 " She supposed, a little sadly, that her temperament just wasn't designed to believe that nothing mattered in the world besides romantic love. Try as she might, she just couldn't convince herself that the world was well lost for love, or that a penniless life in a garret meant bliss as long as love was a substitute for warmth or food. Sometimes over the years she had looked at Marianne and envied her ability to abandon herself almost ecstatically to music, or place, or literature or -- as so intensely in the present case -- to love. It must be extraordinary, Elinor thought, to be able to surrender oneself so completely, not just because it would feel exhilarating but also because it meant that one was -- oh, how unlike me, Elinor thought regretfully -- able to trust. Marianne could trust. She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that.; she squeezed every drop of living out of all the elements that mattered to her. It made her careless sometimes, of course it did, but it was a wonderfully rich and rapt way to be. "

― Joanna Trollope , Sense & Sensibility