Dear Mrs. Bird Quotes

“Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“My mother never gave in. One of Father's friends had once said that if Mother had been in charge, the Great War would have been over by 1916. Father had replied that if my mother had been in charge, she would have made damn sure the bloody thing hadn't started in the first place. Mother always said it wasn't just about keeping going, but about standing up for what you believed in as well.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“I tried to take a deep breath and be British and brave, but it didn't work, and instead, the tears began. Masses of them. Where did tears like that come from and how did they get there so fast? Were they always there, just waiting for something awful to happen? What a horrible job they had.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Mother always said it wasn't just about keeping going, but about standing up for what you believed in as well.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“The sun had pulled its socks up and was making a good effort in the almost cloudless winter sky,”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“My mother always said that a lot of men think that having bosoms means you’re a nitwit. She said the cleverest thing is to let them assume you’re an idiot, so you can crack on and prove them all wrong.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“as Mother always said, Granny didn’t spend half her life chaining herself to railings for today’s woman to moon around waiting for some chap to look after her.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Joan, Thelma, and Mary, like thousands of others, spent day and night after day and night carrying on with their jobs in the most frightening of conditions. Every day they helped save strangers they didn't know and would never meet. But today it was their friend. Stiff upper lips and getting on with things were all very well, but sometimes there was nothing to do but admit that things were quite simply awful. War was foul and appalling and unfair.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“I have to say, it’s all Greek to me. That’s why I stick to fiction. Making things up is somewhat easier than sorting out real life.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Find out what you’re good at, Miss Lake, and then get even better. That’s the key.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Me di cuenta de que las personas eran más francas cuando escribían.”
― A.J. Pearce, Querida señora Bird

“Mi madre siempre decía que muchos hombres creen que por el hecho de tener senos ya eres una mema. Decía que lo más inteligente era dejar que creyeran que eras idiota, y luego darles un buen chasco y dejarles en evidencia.”
― A.J. Pearce, Querida señora Bird

“Mother always worried about how we kept going. I had no idea. We just did.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“asked about the weather in London. I confirmed that it was fine and asked after the weather in Little Whitfield, which, it turned out, was fine as well. Everything, it appeared, was equally first-rate.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“It sounded as if we had been in the East End, dogfighting or betting on horses and eating chips wrapped in the Daily Express.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“My mother was more likely to be found reading Virginia Woolf than Woman’s Friend.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“would be sympathetic”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“the room, an industrial Anglepoise lamp that looked as if it had been requisitioned”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“as Mother always said, Granny didn’t spend half her life chaining herself to railings for today’s woman to moon around waiting for some chap to look after her. Quite.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Morning, Miss Lake," he said, covering three octaves. "Miss Knighton," he added, which came out very nearly high enough to have a conversation with a bat.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“How often did anyone ever tell women they were doing a good job?”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“There was something about planning a wedding that felt as if it was one in the eye for Hitler. He could send over as many Luftwaffe planes as he liked, but he couldn’t stop people being in love”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Men are such fatheads, my darling,’ she whispered”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Granny didn’t spend half her life chaining herself to railings for today’s woman to moon around waiting for some chap to look after her.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird