Penny Plain Quotes

“You know the people," said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.”
― O. Douglas, Penny Plain

“But sometimes it feels as if we comfortable people are walking on a flowery meadow that is really a great quaking morass, and underneath there is black slime full of unimagined horrors. A photograph in the newspaper makes a crack and you see down. The War made a tremendous crack. It seemed then as if we were all to be drawn into the slime, as if cruelty had got its fangs into the heart of the world.”
― O. Douglas, Penny Plain

“I have thought of writing and trying to give a truthful picture of Scottish life - a cross between Drumtochty and The House with the Green Shutters - but it would probably be reviewed as a 'feebly written story of life in a Scots provincial town' and then I would beat my pen into a hatpin and retreat from the literary arena.”
― Anna Masterton Buchan, Penny Plain

“It's like something in a fairy-tale," she complained to Pamela. "You are given a fairy palace, but when you try to go to it mountains of glass are set before you and you can't reach it”
― O. Douglas, Penny Plain