The Keeper Of Stories Quotes
"Monday has a very particular order: laughter to begin with; sadness toward the end of the day."
"Everyone knows reliable cleaners are hard to come by."
"He was the one who took the shine out of the tosser’s eye."
"She wonders if the story of life is a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy."
"Of course all libraries have ghosts. Everyone knows ghosts like to read."
"She worries about why anyone would want to troll another human being."
"In those precious, glorious moments when her hips swayed in rhythm and her arms snuck free from her sides, she really didn’t care what anyone else in the room, or even in the world, thought of her."
"A gentle word from the ‘staff,’ rather than from a fellow mourner, was often welcomed."
"She wonders where the young girl on the bus is now and what she might be dancing to."
"Every man should leave a story better than he found it."
"I did try to fix you one earlier but I seem to have thrown most of it on the floor."
"I may rate you as a cleaner, but sometimes I do wonder about your intelligence."
"What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger."
"People are complicated. It is never as simple as black and white."
"I’d drink it from the bottle," Janice says, with perfect truth.
"Well, that was something different," Mrs. B says.
"Do you mind me inquiring, Janice, why you do not leave your husband?"
"You and me both, Frank," she says and feels more settled.
"We’re just like Mum. I bet you watch Midsomer Murders like she does too."
"I don’t have sugar in my coffee and never have done."
"I was sure that what I was doing was wrong and that if anyone found out I was looking after her on my own I would get into terrible trouble."
"I wish you could have known my sister, Joy, as a little girl."
"Hope and Joy. Can you imagine what that felt like?"
"I think he wanted to prepare the ground for what would come next."
"If taking my mum out and getting her pissed was helping, she certainly did that."
"What made a difference was what happened back then, and I will always be grateful to Sister Bernadette."
"He didn’t bring much with him except some weights and a punching bag that sat in the lounge opposite the TV."
"All we knew, my sister and I, was that he was watching us."
"He studied her like she was something he had never seen before."
"He watched her most when she was in one of her happy moods, when she was a bit like she had been as a toddler."
"She was busy. Busy cooking, busy talking, busy tidying up after him, and busy fixing her hair and nails. But most of all she was busy laughing at everything Ray said."
"One of Augustus’s favorite quotes from the philosopher Cicero was, ‘While there’s life, there’s hope.’"
"You are an exceptional woman and I think a very brave one."
"I can’t do this, Mrs. B. I can’t change the ending."
"I never for a moment thought you were a drinker, Mrs. B. I know alcoholics all too well."
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease; you can have it without knowing you do."
"You shouldn’t feel guilty about what you did, you do know that, Janice? You were protecting your sister."
"I’m glad to hear it," Mrs. B says, and her tone makes Janice feel that if Mrs. B had been there that day, she would not have had to push Ray down the stairs because Mrs. B would gladly have done it for her.
"He was going to kill us, Hope. Don’t kid yourself it would have stopped there."