Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.
He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good, quiet life....
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
Leaving
History is all about 'what ifs
After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
How quickly life could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
Home... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.
Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.
Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, Can you tidy it up a bit back there?
The past is what you take with you.
The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is a...
The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman’s shorthand, the latter more useful than the former.
No one was amused now. (‘The clowns are the dangerous ones,’ Perry said.)
No one ever warned you about how ferocious mother love could be, let’s face it, no one warned you about anything.
Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let’s face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.
Life is too precious to be unhappy.
A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.
A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.