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The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.

Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.

Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.

... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions. [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong ...

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.

Only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

when greeted, in case the ghostly specter

What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. - WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915

Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.

If the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

She would not allow someone for whom she had so little regard to have a negative effect on her mood at the start of a new week. -Pardonable Lies

Come, take what you will, be nourished and know that you can bear what might be on your horizon, the good and the ill." Now,

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Use your training, Maisie, your heart, your intuition, and your love for your father to forge a new, even stronger, bond.

The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.

The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

He's what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

Mrs. Crawford. As she walked into her

There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.

There's all the others, but not the one. And having that one is special.

Never judge a journey by the distance...

Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.

I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy" Brenda to Maisie Dobbs

Again, and was saluted in return. Each

Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

I love dogs, horses and generally all animals.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

Trouble is, your best ain't always the best for those who want a say in the matter.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.