The word lingered in the air once I had uttered it, dancing before me, and because he received it silently, making no comment, the word magnified itself into something heinous and appalling, a forbidd...
The point is, live has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
Thank God nobody knew who he was, and he did not have to talk, but the sense of oppression was with him just the same. He was aware of a feeling of acute dislike, almost of hatred, towards all these u...
Something we always want and never have. Something that is forever out of reach.
She is like a child playing at houses, whispered my mother. What I ask myself is this—where will it all end?
Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-cropped hair which was fashionably called an Eton crop, he seemed to remember, in his mother's day, a...
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.
Nosotros vamos a las guerras y a las batallas, señor Ashley, pero las mujeres también saben luchar.
No, it was done with and finished. Escape was a thing of yesterday.
No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem Merlyn was a man, and she was a woman, and whether it was his hands or his skin or his smile she di...
No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
I’ll not show fear before Joss Merlyn or any man, she said, and, to prove it, I will go down now, in the dark passage, and take a look at them in the bar, and if he kills me it will be my own fault.
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of littl...
Her uncle had ridden away on the moors somewhere, and a sense of freedom possessed her whenever he was gone.
Fine, I answered. Now what about a drink? I followed him up the corridor once more, across the entrance hall, and on through a swing door at the far end. I heard the light clack-clack of ping-pong bal...
As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe. She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts...
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
She thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things sep...