Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.
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.
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.
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...
He’s what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man.
Truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.
When greeted, in case the ghostly specter
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....
She would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sa...
Intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only
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...
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 a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.
Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on...
Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy.
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...
The time it took to brush away one tear could mean the difference between saving a soldier or laying him out after death.
Of each other. I think we’re at the end. I just feel it.
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