An Awfully Big Adventure Quotes

“For the rest of my life, she thought, I shall glimpse you in crowds.”
― Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure

“Earlier she had thought him insipid: his complexion too fair, his expression too bland. He had taken so little notice of her that she suspected he was perceptive only about himself. Now, in the slight flaring of his nostrils, the distainful slant of his head, she saw that he judged her naive. But for the discoloration of those tapering, nicotine-stained fingers drumming the tablecloth, she might have been afraid of him.”
― Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure

“She protested she’d rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her. It was too big and it had a fur collar. ‘It sounds rather glamorous,’ he said. ‘That’s as maybe,’ she retorted. ‘It’s too much trouble. You have to paint your face if you wear a fur. It draws attention.”
― Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure

“Rehearsing with Geoffrey would make it easier when the time came for Meredith to claim her. Penetration, from what she had gathered from library books, was inescapably painful unless one had played a lot of tennis or ridden stallions, and she hadn’t done either.”
― Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure