Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life’s unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without q...
Work in tandem—and that means we pedal in different directions, most
The truth always finds a way, Maisie, in some manner or form. You cannot deliberately change the course of the river without causing a flood or drought somewhere else.
. . if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.
Of each other. I think we’re at the end. I just feel it.
[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
Allow grief room to air itself, Maurice had taught her.Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness.
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...
She knew the worries that came to the fore at night were the ones you had to pay attention to, for they blurred reasoned thought, sucked clarity from any consideration of one’s situation, and could le...
But for Maisie the case notes would not be filed away until those whole lives were touched by her investigation had reached a certain peace with her findings, with themselves, and with one another - a...
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's unde...
Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.
Intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only
The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of con...
Extremes live within us all. The joy of association resides alongside the anticipation of loss. What is given will be taken, what we have is often only of value to us when it is gone. He paused, his f...
Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.
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.
I can dance with life again.
She had learned, long ago and in the intervening years when she was apart from all she loved, that to endure the most troubling times she had to break down time itself--one carefully crafted stitch af...
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