Mablethorpe Quotes

#1. Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap.

Georgette Heyer

#2. Mrs Patch was all that she had hoped. She was an improbable blonde of uncertain years, with a very much painted face, a singularly penetrating voice, and a laugh which made Mablethorpe wince.

Georgette Heyer

#3. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

Charles Bukowski

#4. You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists.

Nayyirah Waheed

#5. They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground.

Kate Griffin

#6. One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Ed Belfour

#7. My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?

Michael Cunningham

#8. Hope smiled when your nativity was cast,
Children of Summer!

William Wordsworth