There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news.
Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think h...
A statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII): ...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of t...
That was it. ... A simple line, an aphorism, that seemed to suggest the selling of manure. But it had a meaning that went so much deeper, alluding to the fact that where you find filth - where you fin...
I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understand...
The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance...
Always seeking to do rather than to be. Do you really seek the counsel of the spirit?
Perhaps we shouldn't try to answer the questions now - let's just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it's in the way the imagination gets busy when the q...
One always has riches when one has a book to read.
…we saw a lion take down a gazelle – I mean at close quarters. It quite took my breath away. It was as if something happened to the gazelle at the moment of capture, something awe-inspiringly terrible...
The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.
And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate shell found at the beach, that she had never truly known the value of simply ac...
All the books, all the lectures, all the pages of ... of information, areas nothing against the measure of our experience -- and by that he meant the experience we take to heart, that we go back to, t...
On by whatever it is he’s
Think of a dead body as if you are viewing a set of clothing, Maisie - but consider it as the attire the soul has worn for many a year. And it is clothing that has something to teach us about the man...
The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.
Bombers were the dark crows of death, sent out to lay their eggs on an unsuspecting world.
I can dance with life again.
And I saw the eyes of the gazelle again in France [during WWI], and it struck me that perhaps a heartsick God had looked down and taken up a soul, leaving only the shell of a man. [of those who develo...
When greeted, in case the ghostly specter