One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.”
“Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.”
“Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.”
“You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.”
“So, what do they pay you for...exactly?" "Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things." "What kind of things?" "You know." "No, I can't even begin to imagine." "Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog." "Nothing useful, then, like hoovering?”
“The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).”
“She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...”
“But melancholy, that was his own true humor. A miserable bastard, in other words.”
“Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.”
“She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.”
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Book Keywords:
weakness, love
