“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
― All Creatures Great and Small
― All Creatures Great and Small
“complicated, Nell. People are complicated. If that weren’t so, life would get pretty damned boring.”
― A Bucket of Ashes
― A Bucket of Ashes
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
― Lives of Girls and Women
― Lives of Girls and Women
“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“Most people follow the path wherever it leads them. Others hack their own way through the brush and always seem to end up on higher ground.”
― Still Life With Murder
― Still Life With Murder
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