Something Dangerous Quotes

“Marriages don't stay in neat, tidy shapes you know; they sprawl about, very messily sometimes. The important thing is not to let them get out of control.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“Celia, you sound like Mrs Bennett.’ ‘I hope not,’ said Celia briskly, ‘she was an excessively silly woman.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“Celia, you sound like Mrs Bennett.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“That he had not behaved as if he adored her, that she would not indeed have left him if he had, that he had most steadfastly refused indeed to become her husband, that he had misused her dreadfully, that he had been ill-tempered and critical of her, that he had been a bad provider, that his own pride had refused to allow her to add so much as one franc of her own money to the family budget – all these things were as nothing to Adele.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“A librarian!’ said Celia. Her tone implied that prostitution might have been preferable.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“Oh, other people’s happiness, especially when it is ill-won, is hard to bear when you are unhappy yourself,’ he said. ‘I should know.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“He stood so still, so absolutely still, and aware and wary, that it was almost a tangible thing. Venetia, looking up at him briefly, saw the expression on his face and felt something ease into her own consciousness. It was a sliver of fear: so raw and powerful a fear that she turned away from it, crushed it promptly and absolutely; and then she heard the telephone ringing and Donaldson appeared in the doorway looking quite shocked himself, to say that her father had collapsed and that she was to go to St Bartholomew’s Hospital as soon as she possibly could.”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“Misquoting Henry Ford. Anyway, black’s”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“Oh,”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous

“thing we can do for the young is set an example,’ said Oliver slowly. ‘I discovered that long ago. They don’t listen to us, they find most of what we have to say at best tedious and at worst inane. We can influence them simply by what we do and how we do it. Now think about”
― Penny Vincenzi, Something Dangerous