Things a Bright Girl Can Do Quotes

“When they writes up the history of this war,’ said Nell’s mother. ‘I hope they tells about the wives and the children starving to death!’.
‘They won’t,’ said Nell, gloomy socialist. ‘It’ll be all “Our Boys”, and everyone enlisting and people doing without chauffeurs to help the war effort.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“And there was so much bad news. It ground you down, it really did. It made you wonder what had happened to the world? What had happened to people, that they’d make a world as desperate as”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“LUSITANIA TORPEDOED BY GERMAN PIRATE, the headline read. A passenger ship. Not even a British passenger ship; a neutral American liner. Shot at without warning by an enemy submarine.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“Quakers were called Quakers because early Friends were supposed to quake with the power of the Holy Spirit.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“But May to Nell was more than love. She was joy, and torment, and magic, and terror, and lust, and hope, and despair, and secrets, and truth, and sin. May was a lodestone in a bewildering world. She was everything. How could you take all that and call it love?”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“Quakers believed there was that of God in everyone. Mrs Barber thought there might be exceptions.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“CAN ALWAYS wait a little longer, but freedom, directly you discover you haven’t got it, will not wait another minute. Unfinished Adventure, Evelyn Sharp”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE MURDERED IN SARAJEVO the headline said. She wondered vaguely why any English person was supposed to care what happened to Austria.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do

“She and her mother were suffragists rather than Suffragettes; they wanted the vote, but they didn’t use violence to get it.”
― Sally Nicholls, Things a Bright Girl Can Do