Solveig siterer Miss Pym Disposes av Josephine Tey
11:15, 25. september 2024 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It is when one is as tired as that that one's emotional state ceases to be normal. A tiny obstacle becomes an Everest in the path; a careless comment becomes a grievance to be nursed; a small disappointment is all of a sudden a suicidal affair.
Solveig siterer Little G av E.M. Channon (side 35)
08:46, 25. september 2024 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... his wistful eye - the eye of a born book-lover - scanned the volumes lying on the stone table.
Solveig siterer Forty is Beginning av Mary Essex (side 144)
12:43, 12. mars 2024 Ingen har det som favoritt.
[...} lound French conversations, in which one never knows whether it is a row to the death or a proposal of marriage
Solveig siterer Non-combatants and Others av Rose Macaulay (side 28)
14:28, 4. april 2023 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It is very clear in an empty room by night what sort of people have sat and talked and occupied themselves in it by day.
Solveig siterer War Among Ladies (British Library Women Writers) av Eleanor Scott (side 82)
09:45, 8. oktober 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
There is something appalling in this warfare, silent, secret and unrelenting, that is waged by polite women with smiling faces and gentle manner, against one another.
Solveig siterer Princess Priscilla's Fortnight av Elizabeth von Arnim (side 245)
11:29, 26. juni 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... launching forth into a long and extremely bitter dissertation on the various ways persons of no intellectual conscience have of ill-treating books,
Solveig siterer Princess Priscilla's Fortnight av Elizabeth von Arnim (side 239)
11:28, 26. juni 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I will not go so far as to say that not to return books punctually is sinful, though deep down in my soul I think it is, but anyhow it is a symptom of moral slackness.
Solveig siterer Princess Priscilla's Fortnight av Elizabeth von Arnim (side 93)
10:49, 24. juni 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
He was a gentle youth who loved quiet things, quiet places, placid people, kind dogs, books, canaries even, if they did not sing too loud.
Solveig siterer Potterism av Rose Macaulay (side 66)
14:18, 7. juni 2022* Ingen har det som favoritt.
...it’s a queer thing how 'fallen’ in the masculine means killed in the war, and in the feminine given over to a particular kind of vice...
Solveig siterer Potterism av Rose Macaulay (side 129)
19:57, 5. juni 2022* Ingen har det som favoritt.
...I have to laugh when people are pompous and absurd; my sense of the ridiculous is too strong for me.
Solveig siterer Strange Journey (British Library Women Writers) av Maud Cairnes (side 67)
10:08, 26. mars 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Such is life, drama, and another meal.
Solveig siterer Lolly Willowes (Virago Modern Classics) av Sylvia Townsend Warner (side 150)
09:38, 6. mars 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
A woman looks her best with a cat on her knees.
Solveig siterer Six Fools and a Fairy av Mary Essex (side 94)
16:02, 19. desember 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It was slushy under the buses, and although everybody was trying to be cordially hearty, and catch the Christmas spirit, you could see by their faces that nobody felt that much cordial inside them.
Solveig siterer Six Fools and a Fairy av Mary Essex (side 94)
15:59, 19. desember 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Everything, including the most unpropitious articles like tooth paste and purgatives, was labelled "Seasonable gifts" and "Christmas present"
Solveig siterer Which Way? (British Library Women Writers) av Theodora Benson (side 90)
08:19, 11. november 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Nothing is so poigniant as the remembered kindness of those who have ceased to be kind.
Solveig siterer Which Way? (British Library Women Writers) av Theodora Benson (side 89)
08:18, 11. november 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
...[T]he chief obstacle to human happiness was that its first necessities were irreconcilable opposites; to be free and not to be lonely.
Solveig siterer The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics) av Elizabeth von Arnim
08:08, 10. august 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I believe a week of steady drizzle in summer is enough to make the stoutest heart depressed.
Solveig siterer The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics) av Elizabeth von Arnim
07:45, 10. august 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
Solveig siterer The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics) av Elizabeth von Arnim
07:45, 10. august 2021 2 har det som favoritt.
What a blessing it is to love books.
Solveig siterer Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Vintage Classics) av Elizabeth Von Arnim
09:00, 9. august 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
[T]he dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors
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