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1 " They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , The Birds of the Air
2 " . . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , The Inn at the Edge of the World
3 " When a baronet is discovered behind a bush in the park with a guardsman, or a minister of the crown is caught creeping out of a country with his socks stuffed full of bank notes and a woman not his wife ten paces behind, or a public person is revealed disporting himself with a couple of tarts and a teddy bear in West Paddington, they complain to the press that the outcry is hypocritical and that everyone would like to do what they were doing if only they had the chance. They regard the law as an instrument of envy, like nationalization and death duties. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , The Sin Eater
4 " How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , The 27th Kingdom
5 " Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves. "
6 " There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis
7 " There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless". "
8 " Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. "
9 " Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters– it's quite hopeless. "
10 " Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush. "
11 " All his beauty, wit and graceLie forever in one place,He who sang and sprang and moved Now, in death, is only loved. "
12 " This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , A Welsh Childhood
13 " هيچ رابطه متقابلی وجود ندارد. مردها زنها را دوست دارند؛ زنها بچهها را، بچهها همسترها را "
14 " It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , The Summer House: A Trilogy
15 " The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God. "
16 " Scarlet, when aware that she was consciously asking her friend for advice and support, felt guilty, for she had come to believe that advice and support were commodities for which you paid professionals, rather as you paid prostitutes for love and bought your vegetables instead of growing them yourself. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , Pillars of Gold
17 " There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above. "
18 " When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the power of speech. I would return to London bereft of all vocabulary, communicating in grunts and diddums talk. You feel a fool asking, for instance, Professor Sir Alfred Ayer if he would care for an icky bitty more soup in his ickle bowl. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , Home Life One
19 " I vividly recall an occasion when the oldest son was starting to crawl. We were sitting in a garden in the country with acres of velvet lawn and I picked him up and ran with him, dropped him on the touch line and flew back to sip a drink in comparative peace before he could get at me again. He came thundering over the lawn on his hands and knees and peed on Randolph Churchill who had ill-advisedly taken him on to his lap. I can't imagine why. It was a most uncharacteristic gesture - on the part of R. Churchill, I mean, not of the son. "
20 " Everything looked the same every morning: all in order and just the same. It was in the nights that the difference held sway and there was no comfort for lost and lonely things. "
― Alice Thomas Ellis , Fairy Tale
