The English Wife Quotes

“Do your best, Sophie. Get up early. Stay up late. Work those weekends and holidays. Show everyone that you’re somebody. Show them. Show them all. Don’t let anyone stand in your way or distract you. Don’t make my mistake, Sophie. Don’t regret the person you could have been.”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“No woman over twenty-five, let alone a forty-eight-year-old, should have to deal with fluorescent light. It was the light of the devil.”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“Setting down”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“you,”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“probably”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“It’ll be smooth as a baby’s bottom when it’s done.’ ‘You know what they say. If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“Beer,”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife

“They say time heals all wounds, but they’re wrong. Time buries all wounds. Dig them out, and the wounds still bleed. Better to keep them buried.”
― Adrienne Chinn, The English Wife