A Certain Age Quotes

“Books, after all, were expensive, and it was better to eat than read. So the little shelf in Sophie's bedroom contained a selection of volumes amassed lovingly over successive birthdays and Christmases, and the idea of an entire gilded library, old and venerable, covered with the fingerprints of one's ancestors, never needing to be returned to it's rightful owner-why, it stole her will!”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

“There's nothing like the scent of your own home, is there? I don't mean how it ordinarily smells, when you're living in it- that smell you don't even notice, because it's always there, and so are you. I mean the peculiar perfume that greets you when you've been away, the delicate balance of wood and paint and plaster and upholstery, stripped of your own living essence: just the substance of the house and nothing else.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

“The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. —HELEN ROWLAND”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

“Love, like a chicken salad or a restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

“A man never knows how to say good-bye; a woman never knows when to say it. —HELEN ROWLAND”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age

“Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. —HELEN ROWLAND”
― Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age