Thatshadielady Quotes & Sayings

said her husband; "it is a person whom I never saw in the whole course — Jane Austen

He was sometimes stern but more often kindly
just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness. — John Christopher

He just looked at his brother and very slowly shook his head, as if to reprove him. 'Ash' was all he said.
The elder Turner reached out and ruffled his younger brother's hair. Mr. Mark Turner did not glower under that touch like a youth pretending to be an adult; neither did he preen like a child being recognized by his elder. He could not have been more than four-and-twenty, the same age as Margaret's second-eldest brother. Yet he stood and regarded his brother, unflinching under his touch, his eyes steady and ageless. — Courtney Milan

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. — Don DeLillo

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. — Beilby Porteus

One cannot die if one was never alive to begin with. — Aimee Carter

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. — Kate Adie

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck