Jane Howard Quotes
A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!
Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.
I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.
Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.
Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.
The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
