Barbara Trapido Quotes & Sayings

I am in general susceptible to style. — Barbara Trapido

How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win. — Barbara Trapido

She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine. — Barbara Trapido

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories. — Barbara Trapido

He was clad in stylish pale linen and had a squashy packet of Gallic fags jutting from his breast pocket. — Barbara Trapido