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“After much reflection on the political and sociological aspects of the table, I have realized that I am completely uninterested in food.”

“If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would.”

She didn’t even know she had learned a secret. She loved secrets.
‘You learned that students are really smarter than their teachers,’ said Mrs Jewls.
‘Oh that’s no secret,’ said Allison. ‘Everybody knows that.’

‘That’s good,’ she said. ‘When two plus two doesn’t equal four anything can happen.’

“Truths everyone should know, yet somehow, even though they lay exposed all around, seemed to lie in secret like the seeds.”

“Lying there Ma said, ‘You all listen now, this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what’d we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, specially in the mud.’”

“Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and wrong - and I’m not sure at all that there’s any such thing.”

“D.J looked up at him. He said, ‘You need a reason to be sad. You don’t need a reason to be happy.’”

“A swamp knows all about death, and doesn’t necessarily define it as tragedy, certainly not a sin.”

“Si, life is a struggle. But he will commit wholly to the struggle and find meaning in it, rather than trying to silence it.”

“There is a tension that exists between history and memory, senor. Some of us are desperate to preserve and remember, while others are desperate to forget. We all have our reasons.”

“I have worked long enough in the world to know that arguing with anyone in love is next door to useless”

“Daniel won’t tire of photography, but he is tired of frugal listeners who are generous with opinion.”

“‘Optimism,’ Shackleton once said, ‘is true moral courage.’”

“I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. (So perhaps he thinks, but it is only his greatest pretend.)”

“I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. (So perhaps he thinks, but it is only his greatest pretend.)”

“PETER (who can imitate the captain’s voice so perfectly that even the author has a dizzy feeling that at times he was really HOOK). Ahoy there, you lubbers!”

“She is not wholly heartless, but is so small that she has only room for one feeling at a time.”

“It bespoke the dogged optimism that was the cornerstone of his character. Life would always offer more chances.”

“It had been clear to her father’s death that this patterned existence was no longer meaningful, and had been a product of her father’s life rather than hers. So that when Mr. Smith had said to her’ ‘I don’t suppose you’d ever consider marrying a fellow like me?’ Helen Bertram had nodded, seeing then the repeated design which made the complete pattern. “

“Her mean little mouth and dark suspicious eyes suggested that her mind was as tightly corseted as her body.”

“‘No doubt, no doubt. But love!’ Glatt was impatient. ‘My dear Dalgliesh! He was a singularly ugly old man of sixty-nine. She was an attractive girl twenty-one.’
Dalgliesh doubted whether love, that iconoclastic passion, was susceptible to this kind of simple arithmetic but he didn’t argue.’”

“And it seems entirely appropriate that the body should have been discovered in the library, that most fatal room in popular British fiction.”

“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.”

“I’m beginning to see that our appetite for books is the same as our appetite for food, that our brain tells us when we need the literary equivalent of salads, or chocolate, or meat and potatoes.”