It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
P.D. JamesUnnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
P.D. JamesTag: murder bureaucracy
Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.
P.D. JamesEvery island to a child is a treasure island.
P.D. JamesOur parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
P.D. JamesTag: past history remembrance
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
P.D. JamesNot so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
P.D. JamesTag: romance encounters
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
P.D. JamesBut perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit, the body no longer interested in sex, the mind no longer interested in speculation, the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and, in the end, the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all.
P.D. JamesThe television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
P.D. JamesTag: trust television
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