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1. "Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
2. "Charity knew that she had to be up early in the morning. And she knew that a weepy, silly, ridiculously old-fashioned love story was not the thing to watch with a broken heart. Nevertheless, she watched. And wept. And was still smiling when she fell asleep at three o'clock in the morning, with the remote in her hand and the telly still going." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
3. "Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
4. "Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
5. "Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
6. "Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
7. "It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
8. "It's natural to feel jittery around new people. But sometimes you can get over your jitters if you make a joke. So when the Swedish housekeeper brought her breakfast on a tray, Charity said something cheeky about eating Lady Margaret out of house and home. But the big red-faced woman took no notice at all. So then Charity had to look totally relaxed and unconcerned as she enjoyed her breakfast in bed, which was easy enough after the first bite. The spooky Swedish housekeeper really was a fabulous cook. And Charity believed believed in looking for the best in people." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
9. "Charity felt crumpled and wrung out after her cry, like a sponge that had gone through a week of dishes. Of course Lady Beddington said things would be better in the morning, after a good night's sleep. Charity found it was a struggle to believe her; but then it was a struggle just keeping her eyes open. By the time the guest room was ready, Charity was sprawled out face-downwards on the sofa, sound asleep, her tears already forgotten. And that's what it means to be young, Lady Beddington thought, smiling." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
10. "Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
11. "Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
12. "Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
13. "For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
14. "You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
15. "Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
16. "She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
17. "Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
18. "It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
19. "The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
20. "When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
21. "I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
22. "Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
23. "Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
24. "A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
25. "I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
26. "Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
27. "It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
28. "She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
29. "What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
30. "Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
31. "A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
32. "Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same, she thought, stretching out on the bed to watch. The sex got her interested first, and then the story. Before long she was totally hooked, and deep into the intricate plots and the glamorous goings-on. And afterwards, she just felt drained. She was sound asleep by the time Lady Margaret came home." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
33. "Sex on a rainy afternoon is like getting all the gloom and wetness to go away for a while. And afterwards you don't even notice if the rain's still falling." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
34. "Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy great-grandfather looking down on you?" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
35. "Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder -- not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of cheap red wine." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
36. "I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
37. "A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!" ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
38. "When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
39. "You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
40. "Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human." ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard

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What Did Elizabeth Jane Howard Talk About?

Charity
She
Sleep
Hen
Thin
Wit
Ally
Lady
Ear
Bed
Late
King
Asleep
Thou
Rain
Ten
Ways
Head
Total
Sex
Sin
Lie
Tea
Keep
Air
Early
Tell
Watch
Afterwards
Bad
Though
Room
Per
Felt
Girl
Hear
Heart
Face
Hum
Eye
Chin
Laugh
Looking
Night
Old
Ought
Fall

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