7 Quotes by Catriona McPherson

Books make such good friends and quiet neighbors.

What has she done to deserve such scorn?' I said. He had the grace to look uncomfortable as he answered. 'Not her in particular, miss,' he said, 'Just her sort. People like her in general, I mean.''Oh Harry,' I said, 'there is no such thing as people in general. Everyone is someone very particular.

Of course, when I was a girl, a housemaid’s face would have betrayed no emotion if the corpse were being dismembered on the carpet and she had to step over bits of it to reach the table, but times are changing.

Not a chance,’ said the doctor. If he had a bedside manner he evidently saved it for actual bedsides.

When one looks at the very elderly or the very ill, one forgets they’re not some exotic tribe, but just ourselves at a different moment.

The young are ever so; unable to believe that the decrepitude before it was ever firm young flesh or that they themselves will ever crumble.

NO!” I bellowed it at him. “You say that over and over like it’s some kind of slogan. And I never knew why it made me feel as if I was going mad. I don’t ‘upset myself,’ Marco. Things ‘upset me.’ Things ‘upset’ everyone unless they’re catatonic or drugged to their eyeballs. It’s called life.