How Many Miles to Babylon? Quotes

“Because I am an officer and a gentleman they have given me my notebooks, pen, ink and paper. So I write and wait. I am committed to no cause, I love no living person. The fact that I have no future except what you can count in hours doesn't seem to disturb me unduly. After all, the future whether here or there is equally unknown. So for the waiting days I have only the past to play about with. I can juggle with a series of possibly inaccurate memories, my own interpretation, for what is worth, of events. There is no place for speculation or hope, or even dreams. Strangely enough I think I like it like that.”
― Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?

“The clever performing dogs pick up the whips and teach a whole new range of tricks to the rest and the whole performance starts again. C'est la bloody vie. Humorous really.”
― Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?

“I hope you never experience the humiliation of living with someone who is completely indifferent to you. Humiliation.”
― Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?

“My house will only be a shell for my body. I don't want anyone to breathe my air with me, to disturb my dust.”
― Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?

“Real friendship admits recognition of the ugly as well as the beautiful. I remember the moments that snatched me from the passive solitude of my normal life, warned me of the pleasure and the fear of living”
― Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?