“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime,… — 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… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things.… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit, the body no longer interested in sex, the mind no longer interested in speculation,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the… — 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
