“Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“Life was cheap and death entirely free.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid,”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“He was not sprightly enough to have sprightly friends.”
― The Death of the Heart
― The Death of the Heart
“Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
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