Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery. Amanda Craig
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
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Lady Gaga
Rainbows make great pets, because they're already house trained.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.
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Anthony Ryan
When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time
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Anonymous
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
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Anthony Liccione
More Quotes By Amanda Craig
It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger,...
Novelists, ’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a...
A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothing… Certain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they cause furious growth and mutation of the inner self.
Family is all politics. Everyone hates each other’s guts, if they’re honest… Most brothers and sisters try to top each other, given the chance; you always get the worst wars in countries with big families…. People have kids because they go soft in the head,...
