Les micro-ondes n'étaient-ils pas une invention merveilleuse? N'avaient-ils pas simplifié la vie de tout le monde? Si seulement il existait un appareil comparable, dans lequel on puisse déposer les gens, pas pour les réchauffer mais pour les rendre différents…
Elizabeth GeorgeHe 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...raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack...
Elizabeth GeorgeHe managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant of fantasy by telling himself it was the curse of being male. In the presence of a beautiful woman, he had always experienced that knee-jerk reaction to being reduced - if only momentarily - to skin, bone, and testosterone.
Elizabeth GeorgeTags: sexuality
I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense.
Elizabeth GeorgeTags: sexuality
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . .
Elizabeth GeorgeOf all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping."
"That's too easy," he said.
"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.
She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.
Elizabeth GeorgeTags: love animals forgiveness
She'd liked things better when everything had been controlled simply by on and off switches and when push-button telephone and telly remotes were as far as technology had gone. Make a few calls and put the burden of information searching on someone else. That was the ticket. Now, however, things were different. It was the investigator's mental shoe leather that got worn down, not the real thing.
Elizabeth GeorgeTags: investigative-work barbara-havers believing-the-lie the-met
Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
Elizabeth GeorgeTags: words-of-wisdom barbara-havers
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