Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
--Beryl Bainbridge
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
--Beryl Bainbridge
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
--Beryl Bainbridge
No one had experiences any more, only traumas.
--Beryl Bainbridge
Nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.
--Beryl Bainbridge
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
--Beryl Bainbridge
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolor.
--Beryl Bainbridge
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course- the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled.
--Beryl Bainbridge
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
--Beryl Bainbridge
What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
--Beryl Bainbridge
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
--Beryl Bainbridge
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
--Beryl Bainbridge
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