8 Quotes by Eva Rice

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy.

The odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural optimism in her that refused to be defeated, however hard she squashed it down, and I know that she never lost faith completely.

Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.

If I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can’t put a price on escape.

Goodness me, Charlotte,” she went on, much her old self again, “who on earth ever fell in love with anyone who looked handsome? What a ghastly bore handsome is.