H.E. Bates

Quotes

• “Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted...”
• “All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the fi...”
• “Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up.""These people are full of rumour...”