The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens.
That's one of the frustrations of this job. You meet people, question them, get intrigued by them, eliminate them from inquiries and never see them again.
She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it.
Find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian...
We have all sinned, Mr. Darcy, and we cannot look for mercy without showing it in our lives.
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
She was wearing a hat heavily trimmed with crisp pink ribbons which looked new, bought no doubt as tribute to the importance of the occasion. It would have been more impressive had it not sat atop a b...
Neighbors whose jealousy of such a triumph exceeded any satisfaction in the prospect of the union were able to console themselves by averring that Mr Darcy's pride and his wife's caustic wit would ens...
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words justice, compassion,...
If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars.
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better c...
Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
We are neither of us the people we were then. Let us look on the past only as it gives us pleasure, and to the future with confidence and hope.
She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.
I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.
I don’t think He bargains.Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide...
Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated as a warning bell and that, unlike most people, Uncle Hu...
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
¿Qué importa lo que fue o lo que será? Todo comienza y acaba en mí.