The Comforters Quotes

“I think she’s too ignorant to be a witch.”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother’s voice below.
‘I’ll have a large wholemeal. I’ve got my grandson stopping for a week, who’s on the BBC. That’s my daughter’s boy, Lady Manders. He won’t eat white bread, one of his fads.’
Laurence shouted from the window, ‘Grandmother, I adore white bread and I have no fads.”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters