Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Harper, 3/23)
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Movement is knowledge. Art is perception
Life will be peaceful if you can fill your heart with an abundance of love.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.