“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 his mother insisted that the human animal had a need for structure, for ritual and discipline,… — 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
