Burchell Quotes & Sayings

She spoke in the same quiet and unnerving way as she had in the war council, and with the same effect: Liraz spoke, and truth was born. — Laini Taylor

I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into the bargain which is insufferable.) But a good romantic novel is a heart-warming thing which strikes a responsive chord in those who are happy and offers a certain lifting of the spirits to those who are not. — Mary Burchell

You were not much afraid when I went after you," he said with a little smile. "Oh, I was afraid," she confessed, picking up some pine knots. "But then I saw that it was you ... — Laura Frantz

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable. — Mary Burchell

But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate. — Heather Day Gilbert

Over a man's life, his semen grew into a mobile library of every part of the body - a condensed distillate of the self. This — Siddhartha Mukherjee

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue. — John Updike

To have more, give more
To be happy, love more. — Debasish Mridha

I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense. — John Nettles

Max didn't take his hands off her. As they walked to where he'd parked the hired car, he kept his arm round her shoulders, even though he was carrying her cases in his other hand and they kept bumping him. — Sarra Manning