A Great Deliverance Quotes

“He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“The countryside was a thousand different shades of green, from the patchwork quilts of the cultivated land to the desolation of the open moors. The road dipped through dales where forests protected spotless villages and then climbed switchbacked curves to take them again up to the open land where the North Sea wind blew unforgivingly across heather and furze. Here, the only life belonged to the sheep. They wandered free and unfenced, unfettered by the ancient dry stone walls that constructed boundaries for their fellows in the dales below. There were contradictions everywhere. In the cultivated areas, life burgeoned from every cranny and hedgerow, a thick vegetation that in another season would produce the mixed beauties of cow parsley, campion, vetch, and foxglove. It was an area where transportation was delayed while two dogs expertly herded a flock of plump sheep across pasture, down hillside, and along the road for a two-mile stroll into the centre of a village,”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“She stood and scourged him with a final look. “At last I understand what you Catholics mean by purgatory,” she hissed and swept down the aisle to the door.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“cachinnation”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“blossoms”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Here enormous English oaks stretched out their branches over lawns where statuary, encircled by flowers, interrupted the flow of the land. Pathways meandered into the woods beyond the house with a beckoning, siren charm. In the absolute stillness, the play of water from a fountain nearby and the cry of a lamb from a distant farm were the only auditory concomitants to the whisper of the breeze”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“She rounded the corner to find the front door of the tall, old house open to the late afternoon sun. The sound of laughter floated towards her, the pure tones of silver and china, the popping of champagne, and somewhere in the garden the music of violin and flute. There were flowers everywhere, right out onto the front steps where the balustrades were twined with white and pink roses that filled the air with a heady perfume. Even the balconies above held potted convolvuli that tumbled trumpet-shaped flowers in a riot of colours over the edge.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“If one can acknowledge an area of the world for existing and thus being a source of inspiration, I would acknowledge the tremendous and changing beauties of Yorkshire, England, that so much became the heart of this book.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“He had never thought of himself much as a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“You think it’s amusing, don’t you? But just”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Nothing for me,” she said primly. “I’m on duty.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“contumacy”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“termagant”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“How enchantingly clean everything”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Il ne s'était jamais considéré comme un homme de prière, mais, assis dans la voiture au milieu de l'obscurité qui tombait et des minutes qui s'égrenaient, il comprit ce que le mot « prier » voulait dire. C'était vouloir que le mal se transforme en bien, le désespoir en espérance, que la mort devienne vie. C'était vouloir que les rêves existent et que les spectres deviennent réalité. C'était vouloir que finisse l'angoisse, vouloir que commence la joie.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Nigel Parrish waited until they returned from the”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“buying gunk for her hair.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“It was in the”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“arranged it.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“exophthalmic, with a little upturned nose that continually”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance