Wish Her Safe at Home Quotes

“So I stayed with my mother. And she and I experienced a mainly joyless and destructive relationship of hopeless interdependence.”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“A charmed life that carried a curse? Or a cursed life that carried a charm?”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“I saw that she wasn't wearing a wedding ring. I automatically liked her and despised her and felt sorry for her and was glad.”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“I felt mischievous, clever, triumphant, sad—though perhaps the dominant emotion was really this last. I felt like a mildly melancholic Mrs Machiavelli, already ashamed of her duplicity.”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“My dear Rachel," she answered. "Bristol may be a bit of a backwater but I daresay it can just about stand the shock of scarlet nail polish.”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“And at the same time I was careful not to step on any of the cracks. "Bears," I exclaimed merrily — being practically impossible to hoodwink and simultaneously doing one of my nifty little dances, nifty and artistic, "bears, look at me walking in just the squares!" I believe that on the second occasion somebody actually heard me — yes, and saw me, too! Oh, Lordy Moses!”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home

“Here it was, then: the true start of that other road which-like a spool of yellow ribbon—would soon unwind across the whole of this beautiful poppy-filled landscape.”
― Stephen Benatar, Wish Her Safe at Home