A Second Chance Quotes

“Helen, in a white coat and stethoscope, effortlessly achieving the sort of discipline for which lesser women would require black leather and a hunting crop, indicated we should form a line. Being St Mary’s, we formed several clumps and a rhomboid.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I tried – and failed – to imagine Dr Bairstow chuckling. Sometimes when he was pleased, he did display the satisfaction of an elderly vulture unexpectedly encountering a dead donkey. But chuckling …”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“This was my favourite moment – everything stretching out in front of us, gleaming with promise and excitement and we hadn’t yet had a chance to screw it up.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Are you sexually active?’ ‘No. I usually just lie back and think of the Spartans.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Whether Henry was a royal trendsetter or it was practical under their helmets, I didn’t know. I certainly couldn’t think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I know the whole world isn’t really out to get me. I’m pretty sure Switzerland is neutral.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, or something safe and sensible. But no, I had to be an historian.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good).”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“All gods are the same. They’re big on the worshipping and the ceremonies and the imposing buildings, but when you really need them – they’re never there. Athena certainly wasn’t. All right, she later drove Ajax mad for his desecration, but where was she when Kassandra needed her? Where was Apollo, who loved her? Where were any of them?”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Avoiding this bunch of alcohol-soaked ne’er-do-wells – or students, as they’re generically known – we turned right.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“All gods are the same. They’re big on the worshipping and the ceremonies and the imposing buildings, but when you really need them – they’re never there.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“The hero of his age. And yes, he really did have that bloody awful pudding-bowl haircut. They all did. Whether Henry was a royal trendsetter or it was practical under their helmets, I didn’t know. I certainly couldn’t think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“As Joan of Arc probably said: “Build a girl a fire and she’s warm for a few minutes. Set a girl on fire and she’s warm for the rest of her life.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“As Joan of Arc probably said: “Build a girl a fire and she’s warm for a few minutes. Set a girl on fire and she’s warm for the rest of her life.”’ I”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“These were our ancestors and they were as intelligent and articulate as we were ourselves. Although switching on the TV and catching a glimpse of the antics of our political, financial, and religious leaders would almost certainly revise my opinion. And not in our favour.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I personally become very depressed by mankind’s inability to learn from its mistakes.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“An hour ago I was talking to a horse and now here I was, back in the Cretaceous period sixty-seven million years ago, and with a man who’d been dead for nine months. You couldn’t make it up. I thought, just for once, I’d shut up and see what happened next.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Only Christians could replace the majesty and awe of the King James Bible with something as dreary and uninspiring as a directive from the English Egg Marketing Board and then wonder why no one takes them seriously any more.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I know it sounds odd, but clump together large numbers of male academics unleavened by a little female intelligence and practicality, and all sorts of bizarre behaviour patterns and phobias can emerge.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“I certainly couldn’t think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Stop picking your nose, kid. Your head’ll cave in.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“The last dead chicken in the shop”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“When you have a small population, children are valued – they are the future, after all, and, for the kids themselves, this manifests itself in a careless confidence. Who would hurt them? Why would anyone hurt them?”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance

“Achilles tilted back his head, clenched his fists, and roared his triumph to the gods, to the ghost of Patroclus, to the city of Troy, to the whole world.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Second Chance