P 37 Quotes

“Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?”
― Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

“I’d a feeling of wild terror that I wasn’t ready. It was happening too fast. I wanted a bit longer to say our goodbyes, for it might be months or more before we saw Mum again.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse

“Now listen, darling,’ she said to me. ‘You’re to look after your brother, all right?’
I wasn’t sure I was capable of even looking after myself, but I nodded wretchedly. ‘I’ll try my best.’
‘You’ll be fine. You’ll be together.’ She forced a smile. It made me sadder to think we were leaving her on her own, but her job was here in London. She had to work to pay the bills, so we’d still have a nice home to come back to when these awful air raids were over.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse

“She had a capacity for tact, but she was also extremely honest, and if tact and honesty conflicted on any important matter, the honesty won.”
― Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA