Lavender Road Quotes

“For a week she had waited for him to get in touch. Waited for a note, a knock at the door. Waited for him to do something. Anything. And the simple truth was that he hadn’t. He hadn’t lifted a single finger to see her. As far as he was concerned she might have died of vomiting. Or fallen off her window ledge and broken her neck. Or been carried off by a white slave trader to Arabia.”
― Helen Carey, Lavender Road

“Jen woke late on Sunday morning, feeling as though she had been run over by a train. Every limb ached, but none of them as badly as her head. Her throat and eyelids felt as though someone had used a cheese grater on them, her stomach was painfully cramped and queasy and her mouth tasted of unprocessed sewage.”
― Helen Carey, Lavender Road