The Other Half of Augusta Hope Quotes

“I didn’t bother to talk about the fact that love might be the hugest word there is in the world and that we would never, across a whole lifetime, work out what it meant.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“I also learnt a valuable lesson: that the people we like, and might even love, will still disappoint us – in the same way, I suppose, as we disappoint them.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“None of us can ever imagine being someone else. Isn’t that why being human is lonely? Because however many words there are in a language, they never express the actual thing, the actual feeling, the actual being ourselves?”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“You spend the first part of yourselves binding yourselves together and the second tearing yourselves apart. It's like there's something wrong with the system.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“Shouldn’t we first be tipped upside down to let all our knowledge out – like when you empty a piggy bank of its coins?”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“bird mother, and how much my father loved her.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“I can’t think where the time went.’ ‘Where it always goes, Mr Sánchez,’ I said. He laughed. Then he stopped and looked as if he was about to cry. ‘So where is all that time, Augusta?’ he said. ‘Perhaps we’ll find it in heaven,’ I said, which was a surprising thing to say, and came out of my mouth without me thinking about it. ‘Or would it be hell?’ said Mr Sánchez. ‘If you found the past, all piled up by the side of the road. All the things you’d ever said. All the things you’d ever thought. All the things you’d ever done.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope

“We gain nothing from Burundi, and nothing it could do would ever threaten us. It has no influence at all. It only matters if we care about people we haven’t met.”
― Joanna Glen, The Other Half of Augusta Hope