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Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson.
— Helen Simonson
Life does often get in the way of one's reading.
— Helen Simonson
I am to be converted to the joys of knitting,' said Mrs. Ali, smiling at the Major.'My condolences,' he said. — Helen Simonson
Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.
— Helen Simonson
Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.
— Helen Simonson
I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.
— Helen Simonson
We all pick and choose and make our religion our own, do we not?
— Helen Simonson
...so Beatrice, who was tired of people feeling free to interrogate on her determination to live free of a husband, bit her lip and did not answer.
— Helen Simonson
I wish you a strong heart and the love of family this afternoon.
— Helen Simonson
Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.
— Helen Simonson
earpiece in his ear.
— Helen Simonson
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
— Helen Simonson
Suffragettes!" whispered Agatha as if communicating a great scandal. "I'm quite sure invitations to tea are being quietly withdrawn all over the room.
— Helen Simonson
The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone.
— Helen Simonson
You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.
— Helen Simonson
Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books.""No, it's not. — Helen Simonson
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
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I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"...
— Helen Simonson
grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book.
— Helen Simonson
Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.
— Helen Simonson
a minute,' said Roger. 'You must ask
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Do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?
— Helen Simonson
America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.
— Helen Simonson
The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think
— Helen Simonson
And after all, everyone needs a few flaws to make them real.
— Helen Simonson
It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of female vanities.
— Helen Simonson
He was struck by the thought that he was often lonely, even in the midst of many friends.
— Helen Simonson
But of course we do not like to listen to our mothers," said Mrs. Ali, smiling. "At least, not until long after we are mothers ourselves.
— Helen Simonson
Compromises are often built on their being unspoken.
— Helen Simonson
I can't abide people who dislike dogs,
— Helen Simonson
There is nothing more corrosive to character than money.
— Helen Simonson
They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.
— Helen Simonson
You cannot run away from what's in your heart.
— Helen Simonson
It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554)
— Helen Simonson
