A Place For Us Quotes

“In the kitchen, you dropped a plate, one of the willow-pattern blue platters, shattered it to bits, and as we swept if up together you said, 'Easy come, easy go,' and shrugged, and I thought then, That's a different way to see the world. I was always a worrier, always concerned about something in the back of my mind. And you made me see then that everything was perfect as it was, in that moment. Because we were happy there, sweeping up the pieces, you singing Dean Martin songs, and Southpaw joining in from his study. So that's what I remember, when I try to think about all of us.”
― Harriet Evans, A Place For Us

“Their marriage was based on silence these days. More and more. What they didn't say was everything, and what they did, inconsequential.”
― Harriet Evans, A Place For Us

“The world of academia was like a fourteenth-century Florence, riven with internecine strife, internal politics and wordless betrayal.”
― Harriet Evans, A Place For Us

“He'd spent enough time in this house, getting into all their business. The way they pulled you all in, all of them, without stopping to ask you if you wanted to - It was crazy, charming, discombobulating.”
― Harriet Evans, A Place For Us

“Alone in her apartment, writing or thinking on her own, everything was always clear. It was talking aloud, interacting with people that tripped her up: It was reality she found difficult”
― Harriet Evans, A Place For Us

“windows, shouting, ‘There’s a huge dead”
― Harriet Evans, A Place for Us