Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own.He was going to new po...
It was beginning to feel like an almost familiar place to be. But perhaps hitting this new low had something to be said for it, she thought now, this morning, after she had awoken and realized in some...
It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.
I have been very , Anna—for all the obvious reasons, she said. But in a strange way, that very fact is encouraging, for before all this happened I had dedicated my life to achieving perfection. I want...
I am not sure what lonliness is, she said. If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone.What do you fear then...
He had spent almost two years hearing a baby cry in his nightmares while he found it impossible to reach her.
But he was well aware that the future could never be relied upon to be an improvement upon the present. The future did not exist. Only the present did.
But all through life, it seems, we have to learn and relearn the lesson of loving people unconditionally, no matter what.
As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped.But she had sai...
And some people have the gift of speaking thetruth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie.
Algunas cosas pertenecían al corazón de cada cual.
Two very different men, saying essentially the same thing—that the greatest catastrophe of her life was perhaps also its greatest blessing.
You are usually in a different universe, she said, one that revolves about you. The Peninsula was full of rude, blustering officers who believed other people had been created to pay them homage. I alw...
Usual look
His description
Crowded about the four sides of the green to watch and cheer. Viola had set out from home early in the morning looking ladylike and elegant in a muslin dress and shawl and straw bonnet, her hair in a...
You still do not quite understand, do you? she said softly. I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.
You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you.