“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”
“practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.”
“and daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.”
“There is no timetable for grief,” said Bronwen Morgan. “Grief isn’t a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief’s time is beyond time, and time itself … isn’t very important.”
“Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.”
“Why does no one ever admit that hatred and love can exist side by side, each emotion genuine but only one ever acknowledged as real?”
“don’t play bridge but I’m going to learn. The”
“We know so little,” she said, “about even those who are closest to us. We know so little of what really goes on in other people’s lives.”
“Marrying for love might be romantic but I considered it the hallmark of an undisciplined private life. Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied; it anesthetizes them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives.”
“Personally I can think of nothing more terrifying than to live in a land where law and order have no meaning and violence is the rule of the day.”
“1 When the crops were under cover on the Wayne farm near Pittsford in Vermont, when the winter wood was cut and the first light snow lay on the ground, Joseph Wayne went to the wing-back chair by the fireplace late one afternoon and stood before his father.”
“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”
“Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough?”
“His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.”
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.”
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