The Friendly Young Ladies Quotes

“Do you every worry about the situation you leave your characters in when you stop writing? I mean, they've got to stay put like that till one starts again.”
― Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies

“If only the clouds would lift, and she could sit down and read, she knew that she would feel better at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies

“She was not beautiful, or anywhere near it; but her face, a little too broad, and her firm quiet body, had the confidence of women who have never missed beauty, having had all they want from life without it. She wore a plain dark-red dress which was neither good nor bad; chosen, it seemed, with a thoughtless negative taste, assimilated to herself, and forgotten. She was almost wholly lacking in the paraphernalia of female competition; but its absence was like the absence of small change in the handbag of a queen. Hers was the rare, prideless assurance of the woman whose womanhood has not only succeeded, but has known what to take of success and what to leave aside. She was the kind of woman of whom other women say that they don’t know what men see in her. But Leo knew.”
― Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies