Annie Barrows Quotes

• If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

  Annie Barrows

  Stories, Ends, Company

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.224, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

• We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

  Annie Barrows

  Book

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.56, A&C Black

  7 Copy quote

• You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

  Annie Barrows

  Book, Talking, Receiving

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

  5 Copy quote

• I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

  Annie Barrows

  Champagne, Grown Women, I Can

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.52, A&C Black

  5 Copy quote

• Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

  Annie Barrows

  Mind, Be Kind, Cry

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press

  4 Copy quote

• It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

  Annie Barrows

  Lonely, Thinking, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin