One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable, she had told Richard. You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.
And as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already separated from the people around her. Tomorrow I shall not be among you anymore; not of you but myst...
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in the...
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your min...
So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.
Is it easier to be than to do?
Eliot always said, ‘I’m sorry. I had to do that.’ If you are all right really, really all right, you don’t do things that are sorry.
Remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,
You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly.
None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.
I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.
Why do religions have edges? asked Teresa.... God is here, said the printed text on the wall. Yes, said Sophie. But, she asked, isn't He everywhere? Then why do they make Him little? And she thought o...
To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
Harriet told her, 'Captain John was brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown eyes rested thoughtfully on Captain John. Why didn't he stay until the other leg...
Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.
Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot ‘do’; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong things, and then the dolls are hurt and abused and lost; an...
And you needn’t worry about being useful,’ said Dame Ursula. ‘When you have become God’s in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.’ She was quoting St Basil. Then he...
On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this ga...
Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.
I think there are only two ways to live in this place,’ said Sister Philippa, ‘you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.
