“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held for her, a mystery felt… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“On the whole I’m glad; you can’t mourn for unborn grandchildren when there never was a hope of them. This planet is doomed anyway.… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
