Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.
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.
It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.
If I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball, she said, and if I had simpered and giggled during the drive in Hyde Park, you would have lost interest in me in a moment, Lord Ravensberg...
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...
For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world,
Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.
But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.
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.
And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a so...
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...
Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of
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.
We often do not say what is in our hearts, he said, to those who are closest and most dear to us.
Una luz moría también en él, cuando ella era infeliz.
There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far...