I’m afraid I’m not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.’ ‘Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they’ll adapt little by little.
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
If you can’t face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute.
If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.
Florence tenía buen corazón, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir.
Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room,...
Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The
The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they h...
Es un buen libro y, por lo tanto, debería intentar vendérselo a los habitantes de Hardborough. No lo entenderán, pero será mejor así. Entender las cosas hace que la mente se vuelva perezosa.
She was in love, as she quite saw, with a middle - aged man who said the same thing to all the girls, who had been a prince for an evening which he'd most likely forgotten already, who had given her a...
Persevering secretary of the Society for Providing Public Access to Places of Interest and Beauty,
There’s two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You’re selfish both ways.
As an institution that could not tell a lie, they were unique in the contrivances of gods and men since the Oracle of Delphi. As office managers, they were no more than adequate, but now, as autumn ap...
Salvatore threw up his hands. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this. Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.
Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
How could the wind be so strong, so far inland, that cyclistscoming into the town in the late afternoon looked more likesailors in peril? This was on the way into Cambridge, up MillRoad past the cemet...
What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to...
La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado
Igual que seguía considerando que la gravedad es una fuerza que atrae las cosas hacia sí, y no una simple cuestión que se encarga de las que menos resistencia opongan a ella, estaba segura de que el c...
Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,’ he said. ‘Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.
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