You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am ...
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.~ Dorothy Parker ~ Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ Parents were invented to make children...
We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.~ Voltaire ~ The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.~ Dorothy Parker ~ The best way to keep children at home is to ...
Even though I have not read or written any poetry, I have still thought a lot about it, in particular working class poetry. In recent times, important poetry books of working class life have emerged, such as Caleb Femi’s recent Poor, all of Fran Lock’s brilliant writing, Jay Bernard’...
He supposed, from the noises in the house, and the continual coming and going, that preparations were being made for the funeral of the comte. He wrote to the king to ask for an extension of his leave of absence. Grimaud, as we have said, had entered D’Artagnan’s apartment, had ...
The passing of my Grandmother in 2015. She passed a day after my birthday, February 26th. It rained that day and snowed a bit. Pretty much the whole week leading up to her funeral, the weather was like that. But the day of her funeral the sun was out. I guess she had a warm wel...
When the phone rings, I think it's him. His funeral is next Friday, and whilst I feel reality may sink in then, our heartbreak isn't over. Genetic testing which will take months is being carried out in the hope of finding a cause for his passing. Until that is complete, we are ...
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.~ Oscar Wilde ~ One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.~ Oscar Wilde ~ Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor ...
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ~Herbert Read~ For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. ...