Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.
Eva RiceMama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.
Eva RiceBut wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy
Eva RiceThe odd thing about Mama was that she liked to think of herself as a doomy sort of person, but there was a natural optimism in her that refused to be defeated, however hard she squashed it down, and I know that she never lost faith completely.
Eva RiceMen, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.
Eva RiceAs he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.
Eva RiceIf I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can't put a price on escape.
Eva RiceWould it ever, ever leave? I had become used to the ache now; it was with me all the time, and never seemed to lessen. Time was no healer, I decided, but it was a great accommodator.
Eva RiceThere's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?
Eva RiceOne would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,’ agreed Charlotte.
‘But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,’ I agreed quickly.
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