the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
P. D. JamesI don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
P. D. JamesWe English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. JamesI wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
P. D. James