“The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the minute had taken place, the death that takes its victim, … feet foremost through the floor, Into an… — 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
