Not Now, but Now Quotes

“Jennie sighed. She felt less disturbed than hideously bored by all these below-stairs melodramatics. It seemed to her that everyone in the world was selfish, living in a tight cocoon, giving nothing, and always sucking at her, draining her of her daintiness, her fresh fineness, asking, taking, giving nothing to her but a stream of words. It was almost more than she could stand, this drowning flood of words everywhere about and above and around”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Not Now, but Now

“Yes, Madame,' he said in a way that told her he recognized that she would behave herself, that she might be a whore but she was also a lady.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Not Now, but Now

“I have one religion - if any. There is me. And there is nothing.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Not Now, but Now

“Perhaps it was Barbara, because she was even more innocent than Paul, and such a state demands most and gets it, the way the youngest child in a family is coddled in spite of its harelip or its foul temper or it stinks”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Not Now, but Now

“There was Paul, innocent at least in his assumption that he could ever have her for the simple reason that he wanted her. He made her bones yawn, which in itself was an affront to her inviolability: she hated the ignominy of being drawn to him just because he was young and teasing and clean to smell.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, Not Now, but Now