“Kincaid wondered what universal formula required that a person should sit down to receive bad news. Was it merely a precaution against fainting or falling, or had it become a kind of foreshadowing, effective in easing the shock?” — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, ‘I know not which I am!’ ” —Thomas… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“His father, who had rebelled early against his Scots Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself an “intellectual agnostic”—or had it been “agnostic intellectual”?—had protested, but… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“Kincaid wondered what universal formula required that a person should sit down to receive bad news. Was it merely a precaution against fainting or… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
