Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.
Sometimes she thought she could see that good heart beating, and realized that more often now she looked for goodness in a person, sought it out and found it comforting.
In a time of war the supply and movement of money becomes even more crucial than ever. Money is a powerful tool, and wars are about powerful men and how they use the tools at their disposal. The milit...
I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is differ...
I believe it is to our detriment that age gives us a certain mistrust of those younger than ourselves, and we fail to see the strength within them to assume the burden of truth.
He’s what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man.
Grannies to the rescue.
Work in tandem—and that means we pedal in different directions, most
Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.
Then as each month, each year passed, it was as if the memory of you - of us… the explosion - were encased in a fine tissue-paper.’ … 'I felt as if I were looking through a window to my own past, and...
Never follow a story with a question, Maisie, not immediately. And remember to acknowledge the storyteller, for in some way even the messenger is affected by the story he brings.
I can dance with life again.
Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that’s what he’s done. They took a few
And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave?I think it will contribute to my understanding of the world, of people.More so than say, the old lady who has lived in the same h...
Truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.
When greeted, in case the ghostly specter
The time it took to brush away one tear could mean the difference between saving a soldier or laying him out after death.
Sometimes talked about your offering a place of refuge for the women here. Well, when she was with the vicar it was different. No one would have said anything to him. He had a regard for her, you see....
Everyone has a capacity for evil. And we’ve all seen it, and done it, even if we think we haven’t—there’s the slight in conversation that wounds another person, the words we know will cause pain to a...
[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start