A Clubbable Woman Quotes

“Welshmen weren’t born to be right. They were born to be bloody tragic.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“I am a sensitive plant. Like asparagus, I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign. Pascoe had pulled into the Club car park close behind the Evanses’ car. He had not got out immediately, but sat and watched the broad Welshman and his wife pick their way carefully over the already frosted surface towards the club-house.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“feel. Or you might plead that it was not slanderous because it was true. Even this is not always an acceptable defence, I should add. The truth can often be slanderous if it is put in certain ways. But still, it would be your best bet.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“and we are to each other for ever what was bearable only in my intuition of its impermanence. Death doesn’t change things, then. It merely petrifies things for those who go on living.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“They were dancing in the social room. A record player shuffled a few simple chords violently together, then dealt them out with heavy emphasis.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman