And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.
Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.
Oh. Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister’s wife.
Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual...
She may not have believed in God, but I’m pretty certain God believed in her.
Perhaps that was the worst of all. Not having someone to remember things with.
She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die
She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.
Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the p...
He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsig...
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.
It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years sli...
Carrie could not remember how long it was since some other person had cherished her. Had said, 'You look tired.' And, 'How about a little rest?' She had spent too many years being strong, looking afte...
You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambiance of their own home. Seen their furniture and their books and the manner of their lifestyle.
Elfrida, are you about to cry?- I might be.- Why?- Relief. ♥
Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to thi...
Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a...
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