No One Near Quotes

“Before you ask, I didn’t make those. They are my grandchildren’s work. The large, round, red blob with the black hat is me, apparently. Strangely, that figure appears, and in the same proportions, in all three of the girls’ art. Obviously, they all have the same defective vision. I’ve booked them an optician’s appointment for the new year.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“The Lady Anwen thought it would be funny to give me a stuffed sheep wearing a jumper in the style of a stripy humbug last year. Baa‑humbug it’s called.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“Five minutes,’ Gina said. ‘And don’t put your white shirt on until you’ve eaten. I don’t know what your mother puts in her gravy, but we ought to paint it on bomb shelters because it would easily survive an atomic blast. It’s a sod to get out of any clothing.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“But it isn’t just my parents,’ Rhys replied. ‘There’s my aunty and uncle and at least four cousins. I mean, it’s a proper circus, clowns included.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“He simply did not know what to buy a forty-something-year-old woman without coming across as one of the three of the lesser known of Snow White’s companions: clueless, trite, or sleazy. And he hated the thought of a gift for a gift’s sake.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near