The Room in the Attic Quotes

“Indeed, I read an article that cited one of the reasons women were admitted to asylums in the nineteenth century was because they read too many books.”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“Some wrongs can never be put right. Not all pain can be alleviated. Human beings are an optimistic bunch, but it’s disingenuous to think there will always be a happy ending; that that which we believe to be right will always triumph.”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“I didn’t realise how much he didn’t love us until after Mum had died and he was free to be the unloving person he’d always been all along.”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“Someone who knew that sometimes I laughed at the wrong things and in the wrong places; or that I could be too keen, too needy, too talkative, too quiet. Someone who didn’t mind about me blushing and fainting. I’d never been good at making new friends.”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“Mum said places had personalities. Strong emotions soaked into the fabric of buildings, and if you concentrated you could feel the same feelings as the people who had been there before.”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“time had elapsed since she last felt it that she had completely forgotten how powerful, how”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“the”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“going”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic

“returned”
― Louise Douglas, The Room in the Attic