The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Quotes

“She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows on to the waiting books, gave her such pleasure that she would have worked for nothing.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“She was alone.
She missed him immediately.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You're fifty years old -- haven't you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“She had always been comforted by confectionery”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“we all need to be loved, and we all need to love.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“It was three o'clock in the morning. A time when frail people die.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Women are mysterious creatures, Dr Bee.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“I haven't used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“You should only speak when you have something worth saying.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“As a journey begins with one step, so a crowd begins to collect with one person.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea?”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Goodness means telling good lies, so that people won't get hurt by true words.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Eva said, Are you sure that it's my husband, Dr Brian Beaver, she's carrying on with? Only he's not the type.
"He's a man, isn't he?" Said Nicola.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“He had always had difficulty in recognising an emotion.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Be kind, for everybody you meet is fighting a hard battle'
attributed to Plato, and many others”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all?”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“It's amazing what you can get used to, given time.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“food cooked without love was bad food.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“I don't know why people get so hot and bothered about sex. It's only the insertion of a penis into a nearby vagina.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Brian kept the photograph inside an Old Bible. He knew it would be safe there. Nobody ever opened it.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“И почему люди с безупречной дикцией всегда озвучивают плохие новости?”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“— Конечно, я тебя прощаю, — вздохнула Ева. — Я прощаю все и прощаю всех. Прощаю даже себя.”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“Жизнь слишком сложна, чтобы проживать ее в одиночестве.”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“— Она вовсе не сумасшедшая. Я знавал сумасшедших и сходил с ума сам.”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“— Теперь я знаю, как чувствовал себя Самсон. Я уже не такой, как прежде, Ева. — На миг он задумался о том, что для него важно, а затем добавил: — Все мы — дураки, гении, попрошайки, отличники… Всем нам нужно любить и чтобы любили нас. А когда любовь взаимна — аллилуйя! Если человеку удается прожить жизнь, избежав унижения, он благословенен.”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“— Что является самым важным человеческим качеством, которое на пользу всем людям? Даже ублюдкам, отчекрыжившим мне волосы?

Ева долго думала, гладя Александра по голове, и наконец сказала:

— Доброта. Или это слишком просто?

— Нет, пусть будет просто доброта, я за.”
― Сью Таунсенд, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year