Just One Damned Thing After Another Quotes

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“He was calm and soothing and had a reasonable explanation for everything. No woman should have to put up with that.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Silence holds no fears for me. I never feel the urge to fill it as so many other people do.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“The screaming redoubled. You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Exchange between Leon and Max:
"I just want you to tell me you love me sometimes."
"Yes, you see I can't do that." He turned his head away. "I love you all the time.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, ‘Mfhbnnntx,’ and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, ‘Trout,’ and that was pretty much it.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“If in doubt, make some tea.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“The Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings was the official body whose task it was to oversee repairs and maintenance to our beloved but battered listed building. We had them on speed-dial. They had us on their black list.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Mr Markham, the box marked “Sex” is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologise to Mrs Partridge.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“I certainly wasn’t where I should be and it would be the cautious, the sensible thing to do. But, for God’s sake, I was an historian and cautious and sensible were things that happened to other people. I”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“If in doubt, make tea. I'm at St. Mary's: if hitting someone didn't solve the problem, then drinking tea would.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Show me a cup of tea and I’ll show you at least two historians attached to it.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“I spoke very quietly because the more quietly you speak, the more people listen.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Attention span of a – what was I saying?”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Society is rigid. Everyone knows everyone else in their world. Everyone has their place in the scheme of things. If you don't belong to a family, a tribe, a village, a guild, whatever, you don't exist then, either. And you can't just pitch up somewhere without mutual acquaintances, recommendations, or letters of introduction. Life on the fringes of society, any society in any time, is tough.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Strangely, I found the conclusion quite liberating. When you’re fucked, you’re fucked. Things really can’t get much worse. With”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Mr Sussman; you are not a Jedi Knight. Kindly amend the details in Box 3”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“You’re really not fit to be allowed out on your own, are you?’ ‘So, what’s the damage?’ ‘How do you want it? From head to toe? Alphabetically? Chronologically?’ ‘Surprise me.’ ‘Well, your feet are holding up well.’ ‘Glad to hear it. I’ll be on my way then.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“I met Major Guthrie, tall with dark blond hair, busy doing something. He broke off to stare at me.

"Can you shoot? Have you ever fired a weapon? Can you ride? Can you swim? How fit are you?"

"No. No. Yes. Yes. Not at all."

He paused and looked me up and down. "Could you kill a man?"

I looked him up and down. "Eventually.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“A bit over-optimistic there, I thought. I once got lost on a staircase.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Green food is good for you’ ‘Can’t I have mint choc-chip ice-cream instead?”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“And it’s not just any old panic. It’s highly trained panic. It’s taken years of hard work and practice. Please don’t mock.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“The pay is terrible and the conditions are worse, but it’s a wonderful place to work – they have some talented people there.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“know it's natural for historians, but try not to dwell so much on the past.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

“​‘There was – will be – an outbreak of flu. There's one nearly every year, I know, but this one was a killer. And cruel. It took the old and the young. Anyone from twenty to fifty only seemed to get it mildly. Other people, the ones outside that age group, just dropped and died. It was that quick.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another