Barbara

“Imogen,” he said with forced patience, “you have plenty of occupations of your own, and you don’t care to do the things that give a great deal of pleasure to me – when I have time to do them. You don’t want to fish or shoot and you can’t drive my car, which would be a help to me sometimes. Am I to understand that you object to my having the companionship of another woman who can do these things?”
― Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

“But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,’ Fritz told Karoline. ‘It will not truly exist until you have heard it.’ ‘Is”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower: A Novel

“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
― Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
― Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel