The L-Shaped Room Quotes

“The Spring can be more painful than any other time of the year. Summer is lazy and indifferent. Autumn is demanding and invigorating. Winter is numb and self-contained, but Spring has none of the palliatives. Every emotional nerve is close to the surface. Every sound and sight, every touch of the air is a summons to feel, to open your doors, to let life possess you and do what it likes with you.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“Charlie had been doing something to the hedge; it was not exactly trimmed, but its disorder was now angular instead of bunchy.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“I’m no connoisseur of wines, but I know what’s bad.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“Failure's a thing you measure at the end of a life,' I said. 'You haven't failed yet - not till you give up, or die.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“But there are, I was learning, different landscapes in the country of love.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

“I learned that 'confession' doesn't ease the soul, but challenges it”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room