Shabnam

“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“You are not the first man to miss a woman's more subtle communication . . . They think they are waving when we see only the calm sea, and pretty soon everybody drowns.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet