Staying On Quotes

“I’ve been married to you for more than forty years and I still don’t know what the bloody hell you’re talking about.”
― Paul Scott, Staying On

“He turned away and stumped on down the road leaving her to follow. The view from the back was that of an old man, thin, frail, intolerable to live with, intolerable to think of as one day not being there because then she would have nothing to live for herself.”
― Paul Scott, Staying On

“The English, once they began falling physically apart, did so with all their customary attention to detail, as if fitting themselves in advance for their own corpses to make sure they were going to be comfortable in them.”
― Paul Scott, Staying On

“She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.”
― Paul Scott, Staying On

“I remember one party when we seemed to be absolutely stranded. Perhaps that was symbolic, Mr Turner. I mean everyone else gone and just Tusker and me, peering out into the dark waiting for transport that never turned up.”
― Paul Scott, Staying On