A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls Quotes

“Just because I have my fears about my boys doesn't mean I haven't got time to share your worries about Emily. That's what friends do for one another." Dot laughed. " If everyone kept their worries to themselves, the world would be a much quieter place, but I don't think it'd be any better for it”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“She has certain friends whom she met through her former work with the railways. Two of them removed Mrs Naylor from the ward. No attempt was made to have her properly discharged. It was a ridiculous act perpetrated by a pair of foolish girls with no knowledge or understanding of the married state. Could it be that her so-called friends prevailed upon Mrs Naylor to press charges against her husband?”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“That's all right, Sister," said the doctor. Circumstances and all that. Mrs Naylor, I am aware of how you came by your injuries. Rest assured; I've already had words with Mr Naylor. We can't have behaviour of this sort. One expects a certain amount of it from the lower orders, but it's not acceptable in your husband's rank in life. Carrying on like the great unwashed won't be tolerated, and I jolly well told him so. Colette stared from her good eye in disbelief. Carrying on like the great unwashed - was that how wife-battering was viewed?”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“Cordelia joined Emily with the Hancocks. Kenneth would expect her to stand guard, but she also wanted to be polite. If she hung back, it might look stand-offish. Worse, she might appear superior. If there was one thing the war had taught her, it was that people she had previously regarded as her social inferiors were every bit as good as she was”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“Tears sprang into Colette's eyes. Lord, she wasn't feeling sorry for him, was she? After the way he had controlled her every response throughout their marriage? His words, his feelings, the look in his eyes all appeared genuine, but that was how he did it, wasn't it? That was the way manipulation worked”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“Mabel knew only too well from her own grief and guilt after her best friend Althea had died how inner unhappiness and turmoil could adversely affect outward appearance”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

“Oh, the temptation to snuggle against him! Plenty of other couples these days showed their feelings in public in a way that would have been unthinkable before the war, but Mabel, although she was happy to show affection, had never quite shaken off the influence of Mumsy and her etiquette book, much as she had been tempted. Nobody was better acquainted with the rules of social behaviour than Esme Bradshaw. It came from being new money and the determination not to make any blunders”
― Maisie Thomas, A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls