Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold—large, male and American.
And then. Astonishing. Again. As she was skipping up the back stairs on her way to the attic bedroom to fetch something, something innocent - a book, a handkerchief, afterwards she would never remembe...
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. The
A 'career woman,' Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same sentence. A spinster, she added, contemplating the word. Ursula wondered why her mother was working so hard to rile her. Per...
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved,...
Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.
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Shop-bought cakes are a sign of sluttish housewifery.
She said science had made the world a worse place, that it was all about men inventing new ways to kill people.
She could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.
Pointing. She was completely hopeless.
Now Viola could see the value of sounding chirpy even when you didn’t feel like it. You were more likely to get what you wanted, for one thing.
Misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.
Eye for an eye, Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.
What on earth was she doing with her life? Could she just get up and leave?
What if this present were the world's last night' she said. 'The word present makes all the difference, don't you think? It makes it seem as if one's somehow in the thick of it, which we are, rather t...
What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courag...
What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said.
What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?