Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
P. D. JamesIn youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.
P. D. JamesThe world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
P. D. JamesIt's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
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.
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