I have no idea how to love another human being unless it’s by tearing them to pieces and eating them.
I am a jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox!
How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him? Ursula wondered. It seemed to her that in the search for arguments against marriage the existence of Maurice presented the v...
Home’, it had struck her on the torturous drive back to London, wasn’t Egerton Gardens, wasn’t even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.
He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.
Each reported on a myriad others, filaments in an evangelistic web of treachery that stretched across the country.
Don't let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. But why would you not when the reality was so awful? And that was that. Juliet's war.
Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?
Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war.
But when you split someone’s head open it smelled like an abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you’d cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already in anoth...
Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination.Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how...
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.
A good rule of thumb was that the more noise someone was making the less likely they were to die.
‘Do not equate nationalism with patriotism,’ Perry warned Juliet. ‘Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.’)
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.
Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela
Pointing. She was completely hopeless.
If there was one thing she found more tedious than thinking about politics it was talking about politics. And
He inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brev...