One Fine Day Quotes

“He looked at her amiably, as though she were a nice sofa. That must be the penalty of the grey hairs, the tired shadows under the eyes, that must be the beginning of getting old. She had noticed it. Young men looked at you as though you were a nice sofa, an article of furniture which they would never be desirous of acquiring.”
― Mollie Panter-Downes, One Fine Day

“She glanced round the garden. It was perfect, she thought. They were always gloomy about it, her mother and father. Terrible, terrible, they said - as though a few old weeds mattered! She liked it shaggy, its lawns white with daisies, the golden rod and the aster making tunnels of green gloom through which one could creep comfortably. But in the grown-up world, isolated behind the glass partition, such things counted.”
― Mollie Panter-Downes, One Fine Day

“They were not happy, they could not settle, they had the distrait air of cats whose feet had not been buttered.”
― Mollie Panter-Downes, One Fine Day

“Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth.”
― Mollie Panter-Downes, One Fine Day