Ethel said: Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember- Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kisse...
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love...
Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.
There was a long moment of silence. Philip was holding his breath. When Remigius looked up again, his face was wet with tears. Yes , please, Father, he said. I want to come home. Philip felt a glow of...
He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that eve...
You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.
She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
I could fall for you in a heartbeat
All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever.
A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can’t enter a restroom.
Monika answered for her father. Giving Walter a conspiratorial grin, she said: Daddy used to say that if the tsar had been born to a different station in life, he might, with an effort, have become a...
If you don’t take an interest, then what happens is your fault.
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.
The small boys came early to the hanging.
The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent
Marriage is a promise. You can’t keep a promise only when it suits you. You have to keep it against your inclination. That’s what it means.