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
“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
“From his earliest days William Ayrton’s ambition had been to become a landed gentleman and to found a family. To modern ears… — D.E. Stevenson Ambition 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I came here to escape. You know that, I told him. Why didn't you rescue me from those awful people? I hate… — D.E. Stevenson 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
“but she told Aunt Bella everything else, and Aunt Bella listened enthralled. She nodded and sighed and asked the right questions in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“That’s what I was meaning. Ye’ve got to have freedom first. It’s no use believing what other folks say; the only thing… — D.E. Stevenson Freedom 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
“She was not like Mary’s daughter at all; she was more like Susan his wife. He looked at her, searching her face,… — D.E. Stevenson Children 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 Copy Share Image
“Sitting there with Val's warm little body against my side and his silky-soft hair against my cheek, I felt happy and peaceful.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten.… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
