I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.
A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
Those who live in memories are never really dead. " The House At Riverton
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.