“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Those who have inside their lives an empty space need to fill it with love if they can, and if they cannot, with things.… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“The wonderful thing about the human mind is the way it copes when the worst happens. Beyond that worst happening you think there can… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“By the age I was then I ought to know the truism that things always look different in the morning. As the night comes… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Isak Dinesen said that life is no more than a process for turning healthy young puppies into mangy old dogs and man but an… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
