A Narrow Door Quotes

“small”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door

“I was surprised. It's not often that a woman receives an apology from a man, especially not in such circumstances. I am far more used to being told: You need to learn to take a joke, or; Why must you be so sensitive? Little girls are taught the lesson almost from the cradle. Boys will be boys. It's a man's world. It's because he likes you.”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door

“Working at King Henry's, and later at St Oswald's, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Men are so very fragile, Roy; so unused to being challenged.”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door

“They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door

“disappeared,”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door

“To be a woman, I have learnt, is to be the constant recipient of unwanted pieces of male advice.”
― Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door