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Mrs Queen Takes the Train QUOTES

Mrs Queen Takes the Train QUOTES

1 " If old age is good for anything it's good for being generous. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

2 " Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

3 " Let the light within me salute the light that is within you. Namaste. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

4 " Whatever she wore The Queen regarded as not unlike a uniform. She put on pearl earrings in the same spirit that a policeman did up his silver buttons. They were part of the job. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

5 " She paid for the coffee, took a used newspaper out of the bin, and sat in a comfortable leather armchair. She was shocked to see that people didn't move on after twenty minutes. Apparently, the price of one cup of coffee brought you the rental of an armchair and a free newspaper for as long as you liked, the whole morning if you wished. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

6 " He knew wine and food. He knew how to sense what someone might want in the instant before they knew it themselves. For him there was nothing humiliating or degrading about service. It was his religion. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

7 " But it wasn't a sentimental romance. It was more like a battered estate wagon in which they bounced along together, sometimes cheerfully amused by the same joke, other times grimly tolerating one another and determined to get where they were going. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

8 " Shirley had a secret addiction to cheese. She found that it calmed her down. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

9 " on the street, and to whom you would "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train

10 " She knew that sitting alone in her chair, thinking gloomy thoughts, and staring blankly off into space made things worse, but she couldn't help it, no more than she could have stopped eating the pink cake if Nanny hadn't been there prevent her when she was a little girl. Only her internal nanny told her that sitting alone in her chair doing nothing was bad for her. Still, the part of her that felt rather sad was stronger than her internal nanny, more than a match for her, really. "

― William Kuhn , Mrs Queen Takes the Train