Crewe Train Quotes

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train

“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train

“Denham looked at her aunt in speculative surprise. Funny, knowing a person for over a year and still thinking she couldn't let the sink get messy and discoloured.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train

“Rain began, as it does in central and northern France. The skies were overcast; the south lay behind. The people at the stations were no longer Latins, happy and idle, but Gauls, worried and industrious, the world’s busiest workers, thriftiest savers, hardest haters, and best bureaucrats. Their talk was sharp and quick; they would stand no nonsense; one could imagine that it was they who had first conceived passports, to prevent the world’s denizens from moving about their planet as they chose.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train

“Frontiers; what romance! Not all the nagging douanes and impatient queues of passengers could spoil it. Say frontier, frontier, frontier, ten times, and the word, unlike most words so treated, still retains a meaning. Love, hate, friendship, virtue, vice, God - these may become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, but frontiers remain.”
― Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train