Gets the horrors something dreadful. If a man has the DTs, isn’t it better to get him to the hospital? asked Hamish mildly.
Did I say that? he asked, and then added in so low a voice that Alice could not hear what he was saying, If I said that then I am a very great fool indeed.
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world —Shakespeare
Then as the earth’s inner, narrow crooked lanes Do purge salt waters’ fretful tears away —John Donne
No one could remain an atheist with larks around, he thought dreamily.
Mrs. Wellington was wearing a voluminous flannel nightgown when she answered the door. Hamish was glad Mr. Wellington had found God, because it certainly looked as if he would need to wait until he go...
I'm glad there's one woman left in this village you don't want to show your bum to.
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks: And when I’m introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! —Sir Wal...
He fished steadily, trying to fight down a dragging, aching sense of loss, wondering how one’s brain should know all the sensible answers while one’s emotions longed for the unattainable.
Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general. People looked overfed and hung over and desperately wor...
Aye, it’s an unfair world when you think of it. If that man had been a woman, he’d have been called a harlot!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. —Philips Brooks
Stomach
Mourners
You always run to answer the bell, Agatha, and when you see me, your face always falls in disappointment, as if you were expecting someone else.
When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingring and consumptive passion. —Sir George Etherege
There’s one parish church for all the people, whatsoever may be their ranks in life or their degrees, Except for one damp, small, dark, freezing cold, little Methodist chapel of ease, And close by the...
The arrest of Fergus Braid struck the village like a bombshell. Lesley, opening the newspaper the next day, found a photograph of him on the front page and a different story on the inside. highland bo...
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. —William Hazlitt
Ellie lowered her voice dramatically. She was a black witch. I can still hear her dreadful laughter as I ran away. Elspeth translated this as—I said something silly and she began to laugh and I was of...