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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0028d74 | Sale | P.D. James | ||
| 8b6d936 | I, of course, am considered mad, bad and dangerous to know. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 49e4cd0 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you've been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary. | wicked | P.D. James | |
| 3c0756a | Miss Bingley was particularly anxious at the time not to leave the capital. Her pursuit of a widowed peer of great wealth was entering a most hopeful phase. Admittedly without his peerage and his money he would have been regarded as the most boring man in London, but one cannot expect to be called "your grace" without some inconvenience." | P.D. James | ||
| 45451d6 | Mr. Collins] began by stating that he could find no words to express his shock and abhorrence, and then proceeded to find a great number, few of them appropriate and none of them helpful. | P.D. James | ||
| 0532de3 | ridiculous, | P.D. James | ||
| 520802e | But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you'd rather be without. | P.D. James | ||
| 20dbf89 | Charlotte had not been the eldest of a large family without acquiring some skill in the management of male delinquencies and her method with her husband was ingenious. She consistently congratulated him on qualities that he did not possess in the hope that, flattered by her praise and approval, he would acquire them. | P.D. James | ||
| f7ea1f3 | He still attended every Sunday. It was as much a part of his routine as buying the same two Sunday newspapers at the same stall on his way home, the luncheon taken from the fridge and heated up in obedience to Erik's written instructions, the short afternoon walk through the park, then the hour of sleep and the evening of television. The | P.D. James | ||
| b3fff2c | Good. I do dislike discussing wine longer than I need. | P.D. James | ||
| bbf3fd1 | There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit, | P.D. James | ||
| e4f886b | and faded like a thin ghost into the spring air. | P.D. James | ||
| d3e4cdd | reinforced my initial prejudice against what, with the intolerance of youth, I thought of as a type. | P.D. James | ||
| 6f6481e | It is generally accepted that divine service affords a legitimate opportunity for the congregation to assess not only the appearance, deportment, elegance and possible wealth of new arrivals to the parish, but the demeanour of any of their neighbours known to be in an interesting situation, ranging from pregnancy to bankruptcy. | P.D. James | ||
| 011bd11 | what did that matter? Despite what he had said to his aunt | P.D. James | ||
| 5ac670e | He was thirty-four when he married and the decision was less an impulse of sexual or psychological need than a conviction that there was something slightly suspect about a heterosexual who remained openly celibate, a suggestion either of eccentricity or, more shaming, of the inability to attract a suitable mate. | P.D. James | ||
| 161faff | Aid (from Allah) is in proportion to the trouble. | Ali | ||
| f8cf05d | His room was still and very quiet, insulated by sound building and oak boards from the jabber of the dissenting voices below. He unlatched the window in the seaward wall and forced it open with both hands against the blast of the gale. the wind rushed into the room swirling the bed cover into folds, sweeping the papers from his desk and rustling the pages of his bedside Jane Austen like a giant hand. It took his breath away so that he leane.. | P. D. James | ||
| 8751c86 | Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale pinkish white heads rose from a mossy pad on top of the wall and trembled delicately in the light breeze. Dalgliesh walked over and stood stock still, regarding in silence their unpretentious beauty. He smelt for the first time the clean half-illusory salt tang of the sea. The air moved warm and gentle against his skin. He was suddenly suf.. | P.D. James | ||
| 14f4079 | It had been so close that day. If he'd known all that would come after, would he still have fought so hard to survive? p. 181 | James Dashner | ||
| 155674f | he had felt for the Gearings. But he had made a promise and it was one he knew he would have to | P.D. James | ||
| fa1441a | He was a mild-voiced man with the face of a depressed St. Bernard dog who gave the impression of having wandered into the proceedings by mistake. | P.D. James | ||
| 2c29471 | You drive me crazy in all the damn good ways that keep me up at night," he whispered. He cupped her jaw, his eyes going to her mouth. He could see her pulse racing at the base of her neck and she didn't move away when he bent his head. "The best ways, Kate," he said and then kissed her like he'd wanted to since the moment she'd ran into him that afternoon, since the moment she'd left him the other night. He kissed her, tasted her, wrapped h.. | Victoria James | ||
| 325008b | Mrs. Maxie wondered whether anyone could be as stupid as Sir Reynold appeared to be | P.D. James | ||
| 8a1836a | Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated as a warning bell and that, unlike most people, Uncle Hubert never pretended that it hadn't sounded or that he hadn't heard it or that, having heard it, something must be wrong with the mechanism. | P.D. James | ||
| c1420ca | This is a Christian country, my dear brother, and the wages of sin are supposed to be death, not eight bob of the taxpayers' money. | P.D. James | ||
| a51f4ef | Among the most supported theories is that what is actually most useful about telling our secrets goes further than simple stress release; putting our experiences into words helps us begin to make sense of our thoughts and feelings. Remember, especially for children, secrets are often the product of moments when we say to ourselves, if we say anything at all, "There are no words. I don't know what to do with that. I don't know where to put t.. | Meg Jay | ||
| 70025ca | People don't like seeing being afraid to express an opinion and seeing their neighbors dragged away to prison camps. You'd think that would be obvious enough, wouldn't you? But governments--here, anyway--have always seemed unable grasp it. That's what happens when you can't see further than short-term expediency. | James P. Hogan | ||
| dcf1b2d | Murder changes everything. | P.D. James | ||
| 41f37da | Try any one of these things each day: A) Sleep eight hours. B) Eat two meals instead of three. C) No TV. D) No junk food. E) No complaining for one whole day. F) No gossip. G) Return an e-mail from five years ago. H) Express thanks to a friend. I) Watch a funny movie or a stand-up comic. J) Write down a list of ideas. The ideas can be about anything. K) Read a spiritual text. Any one that is inspirational to you. The Bible, The Tao te Ching.. | James Altucher | ||
| 9c9cf97 | were. It was as pointlessly presumptuous to try to change them as it was impertinent to pity them. | P.D. James | ||
| a2284a1 | It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words justice, compassion, society, struggle, evil, would be unheard echoes on an empty air. | P.D. James | ||
| 15c25e7 | Bereavement is like a serious illness. One dies or one survives, and the medicine is time, not a change of scene. | P.D. James | ||
| a35c9b3 | He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and a self-indulgent exploration, a means of making sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation. The diary, which had become a routine part of his life, was pointless if he had to censor, to leave out, if he had to deceive not illumine. | P.D. James | ||
| 1a19851 | going | P.D. James | ||
| 3991cda | Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life? | P.D. James | ||
| 42ec57a | Perfect fear casteth out love, thought Gabriel. The aphorism pleased him. | P.D. James | ||
| dc20f25 | The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie. | truth | P.D. James | |
| 5035375 | That's one of the frustrations of this job. You meet people, question them, get intrigued by them, eliminate them from inquiries and never see them again. | P.D. James | ||
| b2e04b6 | To collect me. That is what we can so easily be made to feel at seventy-three; an object, not exactly precious but likely to be brittle, to be carefully collected, conscientiously cared for and as conscientiously returned. | P.D. James | ||
| 9d3cac5 | The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed. | self | P.D. James | |
| 720ccce | In a word all the things of the body are as a river, and the things of the soul as a dream and a vapour; and life is a warfare and a pilgrim's sojourn, and fame after death is only forgetfulness. | P.D. James | ||
| 9cc1617 | Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages. | P.D. James | ||
| ef264e2 | The world is a beautiful and terrible place. Deeds of horror are committed every minute and in the end those we love die. If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars. But we have love. It may seem a frail defence against the horrors of the world, but we must hold fast and believe in it, for it is all that we have. | P.D. James |