21 Quotes by Lynne Reid Banks

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

What does that mean, historic regions? Is it older than unhistoric regions?" asked Roger

I’m no connoisseur of wines, but I know what’s bad.

Charlie had been doing something to the hedge; it was not exactly trimmed, but its disorder was now angular instead of bunchy.

I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.