No More Meadows Quotes

“When people are drunk the first time you meet them, you are inclined to think of them as permanent dipsomaniacs”
― Monica Dickens, No More Meadows

“That often happens when you plan a story to tell someone, because while you are planning it you write all the dialogue yourself – theirs as well as yours – and then, of course, they don’t know their part.”
― Monica Dickens, No More Meadows

“Christine had wanted to continue the conversation where she was, with the unappetising tray of dressings balanced on her hip. The most interesting things never cropped up when you were sitting comfortably in chairs. It was always in transient places like halls or staircases or bathroom doorways that the really important things started to be said and you had to discuss them then and there, because the mood was lost if you moved away to a more suitable place.”
― Monica Dickens, No More Meadows