the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
P. D. JamesThe weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.
P. D. JamesMurder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.
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