He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?
P. D. JamesI knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
P. D. JamesOf all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
P. D. JamesAmbition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
P. D. JamesThe world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
P. D. James