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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Jane Gardam

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Tags: fiction novel, humor, law

He has not the faintest idea that I am ugly and we are very happy together.

Jane Gardam

He has not the faintest idea that I am ugly and we are very happy together.

Tags: humor

About Author
Jane Mary Gardam (born 11 July 1928) is an English writer of children's and adult fiction. She also writes reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

The astounding thing about Paula is that she looks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she sounds like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she thinks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles and yet she is so differ...

Jane Gardam

The astounding thing about Paula is that she looks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she sounds like Tess of the D´Urbervilles, and she thinks like Tess of the D´Urbervilles and yet she is so differ...

So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell’s husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of woman very high up in local government. When Nell was eighty-four Hilda retired and they w...

Jane Gardam

So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell’s husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of woman very high up in local government. When Nell was eighty-four Hilda retired and they w...

She wanted to take his hand. Her hardest task now as she grew older in the Ministry was to deal with her longing to be touched - hugged, stroked by anyone, any human being - a friend, a lover, a child...

Jane Gardam

She wanted to take his hand. Her hardest task now as she grew older in the Ministry was to deal with her longing to be touched - hugged, stroked by anyone, any human being - a friend, a lover, a child...

I was quite enchanted with myself. I had always thought I had very strong views on sexual morality. I found I had nothing of the kind.

Jane Gardam

I was quite enchanted with myself. I had always thought I had very strong views on sexual morality. I found I had nothing of the kind.

Tags: coming of age, sexuality

I was seeing something I didn’t understand and did not want to. No I wasn’t. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Jane Gardam

I was seeing something I didn’t understand and did not want to. No I wasn’t. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Tags: growing up, humor

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains.

Jane Gardam

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains.

Judges live with shadows behind them.

Jane Gardam

Judges live with shadows behind them.

The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river—a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse’s eldest child. As

Jane Gardam

The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river—a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse’s eldest child. As

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

Jane Gardam

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

Thank you, he said. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If there is anyone here this afternoon whom I have convinced that books are meant to be enjoyed, that English is nothing to do with duty, that it has nothi...

Jane Gardam

Thank you, he said. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If there is anyone here this afternoon whom I have convinced that books are meant to be enjoyed, that English is nothing to do with duty, that it has nothi...

Tags: english, reading, school

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Jane Gardam

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the Lo...

Jane Gardam

His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the Lo...

Tags: hong kong

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, t...

Jane Gardam

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, t...

Tags: life, patterns

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it’s utterly useless when you’re love.

Jane Gardam

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it’s utterly useless when you’re love.

Tags: love, religion

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiousl...

Jane Gardam

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiousl...

Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride’s cornflakes.

Jane Gardam

Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride’s cornflakes.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Jane Gardam

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Tags: guilt