The Railway Girls Quotes

“Althea deserved so much better. Mabel had tried to honour her memory and assuage her guilt by separating herself from the rest of the world, but the plain truth was that she couldn't manage without other people, without friends and laughter and intimacy”
― Maisie Thomas, The Railway Girls

“Mabel had nodded. She had thought - then - that the worst thing that could possibly happen to her already had. She had thought that losing Althea was her own personal worst thing and should have given her a kind of immunity to any other events, no matter how tragic. But it turned out life didn't work like that. It wasn't neat and predictable. It could rip your heart open from right to left one day, and from left to right the next, and there wasn't a single damn thing you could do to prevent it”
― Maisie Thomas, The Railway Girls

“Didn't it occur to Reg that she worried about things? No, it didn't. If she expressed a concern, that was her sticking her nose in. And it wasn't just Reg. She didn't mean to sound whiney, but it seemed that nobody expected her to have worries of her own. She was the one you took your bother and worries to, not the other way round. If you needed tea and sympathy, a helping hand or a dollop of sound advice, Dot Green was your woman, which had always suited her just fine, but wouldn't it be nice if once in a while someone realised she had something on  her mind, instead of her having to be the capable one all the time?”
― Maisie Thomas, The Railway Girls

“Quite so,' said Miss Emery. 'Which brings me to the advice. It's very simple. Be friends with one another - regardless of age or background or anything else that would normally come between you. You'll be women in a man's world and some of the men, I regret to say, aren't keen on your being here”
― Maisie Thomas, The Railway Girls

“Letitia stood up and Steven went to her, taking her hands and bending his head  to kiss her cheek, and Joan, as happened every time the man she adored walked into her sister's arms, found it impossible to look away”
― Maisie Thomas, The Railway Girls