The Wrong Mother Quotes

“I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother

“Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother

“What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother

“Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?”
― Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother

“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at him, and mentioned the titles of books and articles he'd written to anyone who would listen; who blatantly thought he was the mutt's nuts, as Sellers had so aptly put it.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Wrong Mother