To Tell the Truth Quotes

“Thanks also to my cousin Alice Cowan down”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“Let me just run that past you, Rosie,’ McGuire said. ‘In case I’ve blacked out or I’m dreaming. Are you telling me that our esteemed Home Secretary not only may have witnessed the kidnapping of little Amy, but was rogering some dusky rent boy at the same time? Oh, fuck me, Rosie! I think I’m going to faint. Just saying it makes me lightheaded.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“I’m too old to play hard to get,’ Marion said. ‘Somebody asks me out, I’m standing with my hat and coat on in case they change their mind!”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“That for the rest of her life she’d long to hold that hand one more time, and no matter how many other hands she held, she would never find one as warm and soft.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“anything is possible as long as your mother is there to hold your hand. Even a hand as fragile as her mum’s, as long as she’s telling you everything will be fine,”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“could spill over to hysteria as the hours and minutes ticked towards the edition deadline. The news editors had phones glued to their ears,”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“Yeah. It’s a Spanish thing. They respect age. They celebrate growing older. Not like in our country, where youth is perceived to be everything, and everyone over fifty is past it.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“caballero” to the waiters. The last guy I saw doing that was Manolito in the High Chaparral.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“I know. Brains and dicks. Maybe they’re too far apart to function together.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“It wasn’t just the man/woman thing, the romance. It was the whole damn friendship. The baring of her soul,”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“had read so many paper-backs she was having trouble working out what was real life and what was fiction.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“For my mother, who gave so much, and climbed a mountain every day.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.’ Mother Teresa of Calcutta”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth