“That was *not* a joke, she said in mock disapproval. So you have no business to laugh. It is very sad when… — D.E. Stevenson Business Copy Share Image
“It is all true. It is true that a German plane came down on the moor in the middle of a shooting… — D.E. Stevenson Low level Copy Share Image
“I try to explain that I don’t know them very well, but Mr. Baker does not listen. ‘Very nice friends to have,… — D.E. Stevenson Nice friend Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went… — D.E. Stevenson Brave Copy Share Image
“The whole place is now beginning to close down. At some of the booths the flares have been extinguished, and the occupants… — D.E. Stevenson Black hair Copy Share Image
“It was very different in the country (she used to live in Ayrshire) it was a recognised thing to call for a… — D.E. Stevenson Things Are Changed Copy Share Image
“The property was situated in a fold of the hills and sloped gently down to the sea. It consisted of meadows and… — D.E. Stevenson Cold water Copy Share Image
“Do you ever have days like that when nothing can go wrong? And then there are the days when can go right,… — D.E. Stevenson Reading glasses Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“She had sunk her whole personality to be Arnold’s wife, but even that was not enough, he was still unsatisfied …” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important… — D.E. Stevenson Children Copy Share Image
“A fat, stolid young man came forward to serve us. "A drinking trough for a dog. Yes, Moddam. Would you prefer a… — D.E. Stevenson Dog Copy Share Image
“Grace explains rather ruthlessly that she never thought of such a thing, it is the B.B.G. she wants Miss Slingsby to join,… — D.E. Stevenson Way home Copy Share Image
“She might or might not have "an imagination" (Arthur could not be sure of that), but she certainly had and extraordinary power… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in… — D.E. Stevenson Time Copy Share Image
“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Thy hand shall… — D.E. Stevenson Right hand Copy Share Image
“My life has made me what I am. It hasn't been easy, sometimes I have found it almost unbearable, but suffering can… — D.E. Stevenson Failure Copy Share Image
“R. L. S. put it like this: ‘Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives… — D.E. Stevenson Faith Copy Share Image
“In most gatherings people blend into one another—they are dressed in the same fashion and their faces wear the same sort of… — D.E. Stevenson Fashion Copy Share Image
“We impress Grace with the necessity of taking her umbrella (although the sky is cloudless), and join the throng of fashionably attired… — D.E. Stevenson Attending church Copy Share Image
“The bus is unpleasantly full men sitting and girls standing, which seems the usual thing in this part of the world.” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Once more the good lady has missed my point. I begin to feel as if I were conversing in a foreign language… — D.E. Stevenson Communication Copy Share Image
It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them… — D.E. Stevenson Able Copy Share Image
“Because if you walk in a city you’re jostled by hundreds of indifferent people with indifferent eyes that look at you as… — D.E. Stevenson Different people Copy Share Image
Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to… — D.E. Stevenson Despise Copy Share Image
