“If you cannot read all your books... let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted. “Everything was… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“The soft thud of heavy heads on mulched bark, one after another. To Lucy, the sound of each impact was amplified: great timpani struck… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“You might find a lace doily under a cut-glass fruit bowl on your granny’s sideboard, but you’d be shocked to learn this was a… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony of this… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“Roy Prescott of Burton upon Trent was the first British soldier to be awarded compensation by the US government. He received forty thousand pounds… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“All the time that she was trying to say goodbye, I was furious with her for not trying harder to get better. I thought… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“You’re so lucky to have a mummy who gets here on time to pick you up from school.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“Not everything that falls within the law is right. Don’t be trapped into thinking it is.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“Don’t mistake the kind of person you’d like to be for the kind of person you are.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“For two days, fire raged four times hotter than the surface of the sun, until there was nothing left to burn.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
