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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cdc3f9e | Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be--" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet." | Rumer Godden | ||
| f02164f | You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly. | Rumer Godden | ||
| e6f6534 | Harriet told her, 'Captain John was brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown eyes rested thoughtfully on Captain John. "Why didn't he stay until the other leg was shot off?' she asked. But he still seemed to like Victoria best." | Rumer Godden | ||
| be47b91 | Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it. | Rumer Godden | ||
| af343d1 | It is strange and cold. I can feel it through the box" said Miss Flower and she cried, "No one will understand us or know what we want. Oh no one will understand us again!" But Miss Happiness was more hopeful and more brave. "I think they will,"she said. "How will they?" "Because there will be some little girl who is clever and kind." "Will there be?" said Miss Flower longingly. "Yes." "Why will there be?" "Because there always has been," s.. | homesickness loneliness | Rumer Godden | |
| e3bb800 | And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence." | Rumer Godden | ||
| d806343 | all the nomad tribes would be slain, though he would be sure to call it a "cleansing." | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| 8da465c | The English, thought Kate, obviously regarded praying much as they did a necessary physical function, something best done in private. Dalgliesh apologized for interrupting her work: "We're police officers and I'm afraid we're here on police business. Were you" | P.D. James | ||
| 8f8b4e4 | He said: "It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity." They" | P.D. James | ||
| 6eab2db | And would she herself have married Darcy had he been a penniless curate or a struggling attorney? ...Elizabeth knew that she was not formed for the sad contrivances of poverty. | P.D. James | ||
| 401472e | She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it. | P.D. James | ||
| ecec743 | Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable flavour and succulence. | food pastry | P.D. James | |
| e0bc3ce | It was a fashionable and expensive academy but there was no loving care, and it inculcated pride and the values of the fashionable world, not sound learning and good sense. | P.D. James | ||
| 3e84860 | Had he, during the course of his ministry, changed a single life? He recalled the words of a woman overheard when he was leaving his last parish. 'Father Martin is a priest of whom no one ever speaks ill.' It seemed to him now the most damning of indictments." (p. 243). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition." | P. D. James | ||
| 3972438 | The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens. | P.D. James | ||
| 3c261e3 | We were polluting the planet with our numbers; if we were breeding less it was to be welcomed. | P.D. James | ||
| ef1380a | I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged than others, but that hasn't anything to do with being young | P.D. James | ||
| ded94c9 | A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing." | murder vicarious-doings | P.D. James | |
| a09877d | When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But it is only when these imaginings are written down, passing it seems almost physically from my brain down the arm to my moving hand that they begin to live and move and have their being and assume a different kind of truth. | P.D. James | ||
| f9dbe19 | Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows. | P.D. James | ||
| 72315f1 | It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters. | P.D. James | ||
| 4e5be85 | Nothing and no one will separate us, not life nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor anything that is of the heavens nor anything that is of the earth. | P.D. James | ||
| 5f7cd12 | Neighbors whose jealousy of such a triumph exceeded any satisfaction in the prospect of the union were able to console themselves by averring that Mr Darcy's pride and his wife's caustic wit would ensure that they lived together in the utmost misery for which even Pemberley and ten thousand a year could offer no consolation. | P.D. James | ||
| 26315a0 | You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose. | hypocrisy nimby | P.D. James | |
| da421b9 | There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right. | P.D. James | ||
| b22d170 | A successful murder depends on knowing your victim, | P.D. James | ||
| b21c3b3 | find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian fiction. Won | P.D. James | ||
| a27fa19 | where we found enemies, beings who would not submit to us. Alfheim, where we found sometime-allies. And Midgard, where we found worshipers and foot soldiers for our armies. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| f217ea0 | We're triplets. We do EVERYTHING together | Nina Bangs | ||
| 7adca4d | The Aesir will not fight you. There is no honor in slaying a woman. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| 215bcc5 | Because there's no such thing as a meaningless sacrifice, Mr. Hill. Because any positive act, no matter how hopeless or insignificant, is ultimately worthwhile. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| e96c597 | Somehow, Picard reflected, being snubbed by a Vulcan didn't seem as objectionable as being snubbed by someone else. Maybe it was because they were so reserved to begin with. Someday, he told himself, I would like to get to know a Vulcan better. Get inside his head, as it were. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| 6d455a0 | That's one of the problems with young people today. No one has bothered to teach them the rudiments of proper telephone etiquette. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 8747e8e | One of the biggest mistakes a man can make is to work too goddamned much. First you drank so much it got you in trouble, and now you're gonna work so much it'll be the same damn thing. Society ain't as hard on workaholics as it is on the other kind, but it's still just as bad for you in the long run, just as hard on your system, | J.A. Jance | ||
| 6b8e313 | Everybody leads you to think that hospice is this really great thing, that once you accept it, life just smooths out and everything is peachy keen. What a load of crap! | J.A. Jance | ||
| 7515ed5 | Why is it people fall for the wrong person? Then, when the inevitable happens, they spend the rest of their lives trying to get over it. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 09dcc30 | People die. Quarrels don't. | J.A. Jance | ||
| b785049 | Suicide is something that hangs around forever, dropping load after load of guilt on the living. | J.A. Jance | ||
| a7e4a5a | A child is still one more hope Even in this careworn world. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 9119ab5 | The first rule for getting out of holes is to stop | J.A. Jance | ||
| ef064bf | Like an old snakebit hound wanting his own cave under a house, I wanted to go home to lick my wounds. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 3f77f53 | People don't expect you to pay attention to the little telltale clues they leave scattered around them. | J.A. Jance | ||
| c8e48fe | I'm not so sure innocence exists anymore. | J.A. Jance | ||
| 3192885 | There's very little distance between love and hate, and often death obliterates the distance between the two entirely. They fuse into a paralyzing turmoil of opposing emotions, one that's almost impossible to bear. | J.A. Jance |