"The Paying Guests" Quotes
An unexpected romance develops between a young woman and her lodger, leading to scandal and tragedy in post-World War I London.
historical fiction | 564 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You don't really know someone, I think, until you've talked about them behind their back.
It was an odd thing, she thought, how men were so much more ready to believe the worst of a woman than the best.
She had the sense of being watched, but knew it was only her own guilt.
There was something about her lover, she thought, that was like a dance. It made her want to move, and move, and move.
The truth was that she didn't even know what she was feeling, let alone what she wanted.
The world was full of women who'd made terrible mistakes, and who wore them as if they were badges of honor.
She was beginning to understand how to make sense of the world again, and she was doing it on her own terms.
She wanted to be wild and she wanted to be free, and she wanted to be like the wind.
She had to find a way of living with the thing she had done, of letting it be part of her.
She knew that she was a fool to hope, and yet she couldn't help herself.
