Marie

“If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.”
― Jane Gardam, Old Filth

“If she had been asked to describe him, she would have said that he was the exact spot where the sea touches land, the precise moment of the final reach of the surf. That was the place and time of him. She would forever, then, seek shorelines and beaches.”
― Jane Urquhart, Away

“I shall break my journey home at Istanbul and spend a few days exploring the city. All my life I have wanted to see Santa Sofia. And then, I shall treat myself to a sleeping car on the Orient Express. After all, at my age I deserve these little luxuries"... John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. In Michael Bakewell's full cast BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.”
― Agatha Christie

“If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)”
― Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life