The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village Quotes

“A ship is safe in harbour,’ he would say, ‘but that’s not what ships are for.”
― Joanna Nell, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village

“Theirs, she considered with pride, had been an exclusively monotonous marriage.”
― Joanna Nell, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village

“Peggy dropped her hands to her belly and traced the lacework of silvery stretch marks: the story of motherhood.”
― Joanna Nell, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village

“Her mother seemed to survive on the bitterness of her own bile.”
― Joanna Nell, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village

“a minuscule shred of sympathy. Another raindrop. This time she was sure. What a shame all this”
― Joanna Nell, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village