Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. T...
When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.
She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; y...
He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love.
He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, an...
Don’t worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
Don't look so sad, she said. Her eyes were full of tears.I can't help it, he said. I am sad.I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy.Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what...
When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.
Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completel...
Lenin’s idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two.
Culture clash is terrific drama
Man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: ‘So far, so good.
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me, she said in a matter-of-fact tone. And when you've lost everything- Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself ca...
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering...
Mam kissed Ethel and said: I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway, That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you'...
Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do somethi...
It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.