Grace Me With Your Presents Quotes

“He’s completely unfazed by that revelation. So was Evie. The prejudice is clearly with some older people, not so much the young.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“If you don’t want people to see you, don’t risk it. Do you really need to wear a skirt and heels for mucking out the pigs? Come on, really? I don’t understand why you think Simon would broadcast it though.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“In between sobs, she relayed what had been said, including all the cursing.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“I loved him so much. I miss him. If only I could have one more conversation with him, I’d tell him I was sorry, and that he had a grandson. What do you think he would say?”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“I wonder if he’ll loan me his red dress for the weekend.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“He’s got better legs than I have though. I’ve never been able to pull off a mini skirt, damn him. It’s so unfair!”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“A woman was bent over a bucket, wearing a bum-skimming skirt. Her eyes followed the long shapely legs, down to the strappy stilettos adorning the woman’s feet. She flicked back the long blonde hair from her face. Who the hell was it? George’s fancy piece? How dare he when poor Jemima was laid up in hospital, probably missing him like mad?”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“The knickers may be clean, but they were as alluring as a G-string on a sumo wrestler. On the plus side, they kept her neck warm.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“How fucking dare you?”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“the ensuing struggle, the paint tipped towards Grace. As if in slow motion, the thick blue liquid landed on her head, working its way down to her eyes, up her nose and finally into her mouth, which was unfortunately open in protest.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“She woke, drenched in perspiration. The horror of seeing that was far worse than what she’d seen earlier. The Tippletons in a state of undress was definitely a trauma too far.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“welly-clad legs.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“There’d been a number of incidents on the motorway, which involved other drivers beeping their car horns. It hadn’t been in admiration of her beauty or driving skills.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“As a white-hot rage engulfed her again, she pummelled the sheets and tore at them until the bed was in more disarray than it had been to start with. If only there was some itching powder to tip into it. That would teach them.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Grace froze for what seemed like ages before staggering to the table for a closer look. She drew a long intake of breath before slumping to the floor, her eyes never leaving the object that in one instant tore her life apart.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“She would park the car round the back of the house, so he wouldn’t see it.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“If only there was someone ready to greet her with an oxygen mask.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“As Grace unpacked the groceries, she hesitated over a bag of potatoes. Holding it vertically against her shoulder, she patted its ‘back’ to ‘wind’ it.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“He’d nodded in sympathy at the onset of the migraines, the boil on her bum, and the painful pimple on her nether regions.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Well, while you’re at the shop you’d better stock up on batteries.’ Penelope folded her arms. ‘Pardon?’ Grace shot Penelope a wary look. ‘For your biological clock. It seems to have stopped working.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Breathing in his familiar musky scent, her stomach gave a very unfamiliar jolt. Her arms tightened round his waist. Suddenly transported back to when they first met, she stood on tiptoe and kissed him softly on the lips. ‘What was that for?’ He brushed the hair from her face and winked. ‘So, do you want me to?’ Yes, I do want you to! Take me now! Well, maybe we should go indoors first. ‘Grace?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Do you want me to come with you?’ Oh. Yes, but not in the way you mean!”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“At forty-two, he’d aged well. The slight greying at the temples served to make him look distinguished rather than older. This seemed to be the case for men. For women it wasn’t so easy. Mother Nature had a lot to answer for, but if truth be told, it was probably a man in disguise.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Oh, I feel it.’ He leaned across and patted her knee. ‘She’s probably having a great time as we speak. There’ll likely be more than a few hangovers in that place tomorrow.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Grace was relieved to have something to do. She opened a box labelled CLOTHING and hung the items on hangers. ‘See these, Evie? You hang your clothes on them and they live in the wardrobe.’ She grinned as Evie rolled her eyes, and proceeded to stack books and CD’s on shelves.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“one of the most difficult Grace had ever endured. She suspected Evie felt the same. The biggest clue was that her phone wasn’t glued to her nose. Grace was used to it being an added feature of Evie’s face.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents

“Mid-morning,’ said Grace. ‘We should get to Nottingham by early afternoon if the traffic’s not too bad.”
― Pippa Franks, Grace Me With Your Presents