17 Quotes by Lissa Evans

I'll just hang upside down from the wire banana and throw bags of flour at the librarians.

There was something peculiarly memorable about Vee; she seemed to move like the actors in silent films, all jerks and freezes.

Vengeance is mine, sayeth Noel Bostock. I will repay.

Isn’t it strange,’ she said, ’that there’s always enough money in the coffers for war?

She couldn’t grasp the half of what he was saying. He had a long face with a mouth like a letter box, and leaflets kept shooting out of it. Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact. Imperialism on Both Sides. The Worker Betrayed. Words rattled past her ears.

He was starting on one of his explanations, and she wasn’t in the mood for polysyllables.

Were have you been did you run of to give your spy riport to the Germans. Noel corrected the grammar and spelling, wrote None of your business, you utter ignoramus at the bottom and handed it back.

She had been gaoled five times as a suffragette; she still had the scars of handcuffs on her wrists.

She was losing words.