My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he’d go right ahead. Mary Wesley Read Quote
A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. Mary Wesley Read Quote
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. Mary Wesley Read Quote
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car. Mary Wesley Read Quote
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. Mary Wesley Read Quote
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. Mary Wesley Read Quote
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They’re often much happier, because they don’t go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. Mary Wesley Read Quote