52 quotes found
“The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.”
“Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general populat...”
“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”
“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monks Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1)"Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you've been asked to investigate...”
“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity ...”
“Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.”
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
“In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designe...”
“Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.”
“Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!”
“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passe...”
“The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim or...”
“People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for...”
“Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.”
“Londoners, with their noses pressed to cold windows, smiled, for a mid-summer storm was raging across England. Zues had blessed their land, taking away the bright happy sun and replacing it with gu...”
“Don't you love those crazy Brits?Jumpers for sweaters and spots for zits.And when they want to change their suits,It's in a box, not a booth.Be a hero, make a call.Steepest streets might make you f...”
“Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?" "I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dea...”
“It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.”
“Some people just dont find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.”
“My mouth went dry as I tried to remember all of Poppies tips for kissing over the years. She told me no guy wanted a girl with a mouth as wide as a guppy, who sucked his tongue with the force of a ...”
