“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which did duty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Emily and Rachel had their hair cut short, and were allowed to do everything the boys did - to climb trees, swim, and trap… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
