The sour aura of dissatisfaction that seeped through the walls, along with the even less appetizing smell of boiled cabbage, was really quite depressing. Ursula wanted her refugees to be soulful and r...
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
The Germans were victims of the Nazis too, but one can’t say that too loudly, of course.
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education…
Sweet sixteen, Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you. Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she...
She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not lo...
She was the deer. She was the arrow, She was the queen. She was the contradiction, She was the synthesis. Juliet ran.
She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly,
She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.
People have the wrong idea about fairy tales, they think they’re about being rescued by handsome princes, whereas really they’re like Girl Guide handbooks.
On the outside of the bedroom door there was a plaque that said . On the way up, Jackson noticed that other bedrooms also had names - .Jackson wondered how you decided on a name for a room. Or a doll....
Oh, man, ‘the nursery,’ Dominic said, what a hell-hole. If I had kids I’d give them the nicest room in the house.You do have kids, his kid said.Oh, yeah, well, right, you know what I mean.
Of course, the Führer promised a lot of things. It was what had got him where he was today.
Mr. Carver hadn’t been such a bad sort really. He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a univers...
Mitä ovat todelliset rikokset? Kapitalismi, uskonto, seksi? Murha - yleensä mutta ei välttämättä. Varkaus - samoin. Mutta julmuus ja välinpitämättömyys ovat myös rikoksia. Samoin huonot tavat ja tunte...
Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.
Love of fate?’ ‘It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
Life is too precious to be unhappy.’ Ursula wondered how many people across London were saying the same thing that night. Perhaps in less salubrious surroundings. And there would be others, of course,...
Later, when she understood that it was the last time they would all be together, she wished she had paid more attention.
Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, wor...
