Who says it?
"Passion gets pushed behind the washtubs."
Mrs Travers
"We all come to it sometime... a crush on a girl."
Maggie (Sylvia's friend) says this about Sylvia's 'bond' with Carla.
"We will just remember each other and next summer we will meet... If you still feel the same you will come."
Danilo to Robin on the train platform.
“Shakespeare should have prepared her.”
Tricks
'Penelope does not have a use for me.'
Juliet (Silence)
'[She] supposedly had a 'hunger for the things that were not available to her in her home.'
Joan (Mother Shipton) in (Silence)
'She saw him as the architect of the life ahead of them, herself as the captive, her submission both proper and exquisite.'
This is ABOUT Clark
'I used to have a feeling something really unusual would occur in my life, and it would be important to have recorded everything.'
Nancy (Powers)
'Some of the best-looking, best-turned-out women in town are those who did not marry.'
Tricks
"But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place? What else––who else––could ever be so vivid a challenge?”
Carla (Runaway)
"She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.”
"It seemed to her that she saw the whole of him in that moment.... Scared, fierce, innocent, determined."
Maury (Passion)
"You've decided to reject God's grace... but to neglect it for your child - it's like denying her nourishment."
Don the minister who visits Sara in 'Soon'
“Odd choices were simply easier for men, most of whom would find women glad to marry them. Not so the other way around.”
Chance (It is about how Juliet's choice to study Classics is 'odd' as she is a young woman)
“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it."
Nancy (Powers)
"That’s what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with.'"
Grace (Passion)
“A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks.”
Robin (Tricks)
"I heard the call... I heard the call to get out of the box. Out of the got-to-do-something-big box. Out of the ego box.”
Ollie (Powers)
'How could she be sure that they had not got her as a replacement? If there was one big thing she hadn’t known about, why could there not be another?'
Trespasses
"It was better not to try to escape, better not to ignore this blow. If you did that you had to put up with it hitting you again, a great crippling whack in the chest."
Robin (Tricks) after she has apparently been shunned.
“Don’t most people feel that, one time or another? Loneliness and unhappiness?”
Juliet to Joan (Mother Shipton) in Silence
'Describing this passage, this change in her life, later on... she did say - that it was as if a gate had clanged shut behind her. But at the time there was no clang - acquiescence simply rippled through her.'
Grace (Passion)
'Even the man in charge of all learning in that place did not believe that learning had to do with life.'
The Principal of Grace's school (Passion)
'The road is easy if you know enough to travel light.'
Powers (it is a proverb written on paper given to Nancy by Adam and Eve in Vancouver when she was 67)
"But the difference was that he would go on, he would not settle for less. As she would have to do—as she had already done—being a girl."
Ollie about Nancy (Powers)