Quotes

"But something had frightened her or disappointed her, or perhaps the rigour of being a god botherer had turned her bottom into stone."

"She was a masculine German with a metallic accent and an imperious gaze that had no relationship to her puerile passions."

Don't you just love it when a sentence comes together in perfection? The first woman is a possible future mother-in-law and the other one is a busybody nun type.

One quote is from Peter Carey and the other is Gabriel Garzía Máquez. Think you can guess which is which? And have you ever know such women? Were there not a few in Lewis with the bottoms of stone? and looking a bit masculine and Germanic even? Tell me now if you've ever met any?