To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life. — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I can’t be doing with people that are not exactly what they seem.’ Mamie was” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old. — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“R. L. S. put it like this: ‘Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives… — D.E. Stevenson Faith Copy Share Image
“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common” — D.E. Stevenson Beauty Copy Share Image
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than… — D.E. Stevenson Childhood Copy Share Image
“The bus is unpleasantly full men sitting and girls standing, which seems the usual thing in this part of the world.” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Husbands are annoying at times, but they are a habit which grows on one, and life is extraordinarily dull without them.” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Book Copy Share Image
“She had sunk her whole personality to be Arnold’s wife, but even that was not enough, he was still unsatisfied …” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I came here to escape. You know that, I told him. Why didn't you rescue me from those awful people? I hate… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“That’s what I was meaning. Ye’ve got to have freedom first. It’s no use believing what other folks say; the only thing… — D.E. Stevenson Freedom Copy Share Image
“In most gatherings people blend into one another—they are dressed in the same fashion and their faces wear the same sort of… — D.E. Stevenson Fashion Copy Share Image
“but she told Aunt Bella everything else, and Aunt Bella listened enthralled. She nodded and sighed and asked the right questions in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It is all true. It is true that a German plane came down on the moor in the middle of a shooting… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important… — D.E. Stevenson Children Copy Share Image
“When Nell had undressed and put out the light she opened the window wide and lay looking out at the stars …… — D.E. Stevenson Moon Copy Share Image
“Children are ruthless because they have not learned pity, they are inconsiderate because they have never experienced pain. When Philip had written… — D.E. Stevenson Children Copy Share Image
“We impress Grace with the necessity of taking her umbrella (although the sky is cloudless), and join the throng of fashionably attired… — D.E. Stevenson Attending church Copy Share Image
“She was not like Mary’s daughter at all; she was more like Susan his wife. He looked at her, searching her face,… — D.E. Stevenson Children Copy Share Image
“Sitting there with Val's warm little body against my side and his silky-soft hair against my cheek, I felt happy and peaceful.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was very different in the country (she used to live in Ayrshire) it was a recognised thing to call for a… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Tim wants to know what on earth it is all about and why on earth Grace has come all the way to… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I try to explain that I don’t know them very well, but Mr. Baker does not listen. ‘Very nice friends to have,… — D.E. Stevenson Nice friend Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went… — D.E. Stevenson Brave Copy Share Image
“No, but he’s on his way to it,’ she replies. ‘You don’t think I’m wrong to try to influence Guthrie’s life, do… — D.E. Stevenson Good wife Copy Share Image
“We agree that it is too late to think of visiting Cousin Ellen today – in fact if we do not hurry… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The whole place is now beginning to close down. At some of the booths the flares have been extinguished, and the occupants… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was true that Sue had known she could go to the Bullochs, for they had suggested it in a tentative manner… — D.E. Stevenson Grandmother Copy Share Image
“(Query – Why do people with no children of their own seem to think the shocking behaviour of other people’s offspring a… — D.E. Stevenson Children Copy Share Image
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson Bears Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson Prison Copy Share Image
“Excepting Will,” Mrs. Bulloch amended. “Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man’ll not enjoy heaven if he gets there.”… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Thy hand shall… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet; Womanhood and childhood fleet. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Men who understand women being sometimes too understanding of women other than their wives.” — D.E. Stevenson Feminism Copy Share Image
“Anne could not explain. It was always difficult for Anne to explain things even when they were clear to herself, and in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Nell wagged her feathery tail. It was good when the goddess descended from the clouds and spoke to you; it gave you… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
