Sublime

Nothing in her life was sufficiently interesting or shameful to merit hiding;

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base mot

“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”

I’m a balding, failed comedian with no savings who lodges with a seventy-eight-year-old tinned soup collector.

One was that that long-term rumour of third brother-in-law being in la-la-land as regards the political problems was incorrect because he was in touch with what was happening politically.

Briony was her last, and nothing between now and the grave would be as elementally important or pleasurable as the care of a child.

like J. D. Salinger or the Unabomber.

When Lina called Jess that day, she heard something new in her friend’s voice. Jess, she could tell, was getting better. Soon, Lina would be alone in this unexplainable place.