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Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson. — Helen Simonson

There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene. — 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 "I'm quite sure invitations to tea are being quietly withdrawn all over the room.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 — Helen Simonson

How anyone could doubt the patriotism of my dachshunds is just shocking, — Helen Simonson

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 — Helen Simonson

I said we would be informal," said Agatha. "I did not say we would be eccentric. — Helen Simonson

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

War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires. — Helen Simonson

He wondered whether it was his fault Roger had the perceptiveness of concrete. — 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

It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry. — 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

As I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy. — Helen Simonson

It is the unexpected note that makes the poem. You, Hugh, are the unexpected note. (pg 554) — Helen Simonson

It's only now I realize how easy it was to do so on the backs of other women's sons. — Helen Simonson

It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it? — Helen Simonson