Theirs was a laughter fueled not by pressure from others, nor by alcohol or the whims of a partying crowd, but by a certain optimism that, even in the midst of the difficult times in which they lived,...
The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.
Solitude was her soul's hermitage.
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...
Not you. Only Fräulein Donat.
Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. —KAHLIL GIBRAN
Come, take what you will, be nourished and know that you can bear what might be on your horizon, the good and the ill. Now,
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...
Only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.
The vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when her aloneness took on a darker hue, that she almost wished there would be no m...
. . if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.
On by whatever it is he’s
Of each other. I think we’re at the end. I just feel it.
In a
What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915
War’s always the same though—politicians square off and ordinary lads do their dirty work.
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not ru...
There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.
There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.