To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life. — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I can’t be doing with people that are not exactly what they seem.’ Mamie was” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Men who understand women being sometimes too understanding of women other than their wives.” — D.E. Stevenson Feminism Copy Share Image
“here it was again, clamping down upon his spirit, drying up his mouth, fluttering like an imprisoned bird in his bosom.” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Nell wagged her feathery tail. It was good when the goddess descended from the clouds and spoke to you; it gave you… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Anne could not explain. It was always difficult for Anne to explain things even when they were clear to herself, and in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson Bears Copy Share Image
“(Query – Why do people with no children of their own seem to think the shocking behaviour of other people’s offspring a… — D.E. Stevenson Children 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
“Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet; Womanhood and childhood fleet. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“You can’t get anything worth having for nothing,” Darnay declared, offering his guest a fill of tobacco from his pouch, “and faith… — D.E. Stevenson Faith Copy Share Image
“If we don’t have troubles sent us we can generally make them for ourselves,’ I reply. ‘It’s easy to make yourself miserable… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Why do I always want to appear more clever than I really am when Nora is anywhere about? Am much distressed at… — D.E. Stevenson Snobbery 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 Copy Share Image
“According to this book I have been sowing the seeds of complexes and cultivating inhibitions in Bryan and Betty ever since they… — D.E. Stevenson Books Copy Share Image
“As long as skies are blue and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with… — D.E. Stevenson Night Copy Share Image
Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It is a queer little world that inhabits these quarters – speaking every known dialect of the British Isles – but they… — D.E. Stevenson Queer Copy Share Image
“Rolls Royce drives up to the door after lunch and waits for half an hour while we all hunt for Aunt Ethel’s… — D.E. Stevenson 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
“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
“The Major would be laughing at me,’ replies Alec, smiling. ‘But no, I would be wanting no war for him. It is… — D.E. Stevenson 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 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
“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
“Tim wants to know what on earth it is all about and why on earth Grace has come all the way to… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was true that Sue had known she could go to the Bullochs, for they had suggested it in a tentative manner… — D.E. Stevenson Grandmother 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 Copy Share Image
“We agree that it is too late to think of visiting Cousin Ellen today – in fact if we do not hurry… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No, but he’s on his way to it,’ she replies. ‘You don’t think I’m wrong to try to influence Guthrie’s life, do… — D.E. Stevenson Good wife 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 Copy Share Image
“Excepting Will,” Mrs. Bulloch amended. “Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man’ll not enjoy heaven if he gets there.”… — D.E. Stevenson 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 Prison Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Book Copy Share Image
“Husbands are annoying at times, but they are a habit which grows on one, and life is extraordinarily dull without them.” — D.E. Stevenson 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
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than… — D.E. Stevenson Childhood 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
Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old. — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
