Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk Quotes

“she wanted to drink a Negroni in the sun, to have her bones warmed. She wanted apricity–a word she’d recently learned from a lexicographer on Radio 4 that meant the feeling of the sun warming her back.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk

“She had given too much for too long and now she would give no more. She did not want to belong to anyone.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk

“Sie brauchte nicht viel. Wie sich herausstelllte, ließ sich die schöne Unterwäsche wirklich sehr, sehr klein zusammenfalten.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk