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Quotes from Winston Graham

Invece adesso quella stanza, che l'aveva vista diventare adulta, l'avrebbe anche vista avvizzire e sbiadire.
~ Winston Graham
Uno starnuto attirò l'attenzione di Ross, che spostò lo sguardo e vide Demelza attraversare il cortile con una pila di ciocchi nel grembiule. Stava piovendo e lei non aveva il cappello. Alle sue spalle, Garrick, che crescendo era diventato alto e sgraziato, saltellava come un barboncino, nero, senza coda e con chiazze di pelo riccio. Ross fu sul punto di scoppiare a ridere.
~ Winston Graham
Ho colto una rosa bianca per il mio amore; Ho colto una rosa rossa nel vento. L'amore nel mio cuore tenta di dimostrare Ciò che il tuo cuore sa già, lo sento. Ho punto su una spina il dito, Ho punto un dito con il sangue. Rosso è mio cuore, ferito e tradito Del tuo cuore ha bisogno, esangue. Sulla lingua il dito ho tenuto Il dito ho tenuto e aspettato Il mio cuore nel dolore caduto Dal tuo amore d'essere salvato.»
~ Winston Graham
Chi sarebbe stata quel mattino: l'allegra domestica che vedeva alla luce del giorno o la sconosciuta dalla bocca di seta che aveva incontrato in quella notte d'estate?
~ Winston Graham
He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.
~ Winston Graham
On all counts I've let these people down. I came among them a stranger and a physician. I have met with nothing worse than suspicion and much that's been better than kindness. Eggs that could be ill spared pressed on me in return for some fancied favor. Little gestures of goodwill even from people who are Choake's people. Confidence and trust. In return I have helped to break up the life of one of their number. If I went now I should go for good, a cheat and a failure.
~ Winston Graham
Having a husband, it seems to me, is a small matter like going to church. Either you trust in something or you do not. If you do not, then there's no benefit in going to church at all, is there? But if you do believe in him, then you've no excuse to be asking for proofs all the time.
~ Winston Graham
All the adult family was present except Beth, Paul's wife, who was sharing Keren's lonely vigil in the cottage over the hill. Despised by Keren in life, Beth could yet not bear the thought of allowing her to lie untended all through the summer evening.
~ Winston Graham
The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living one had to accept the risks.
~ Winston Graham
the lord lieutenant was the king's man and from him came all things great and small. Or, to be explicit, what came from him were appointments to be justice of the peace, and to be a JP meant to be the possessor of undisputed local power. For good or ill the JPs ruled, unchecked by Privy Council or the public purse.
~ Winston Graham
life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.
~ Winston Graham
Aw! I'll get 'ee rags and some turpletine.
~ Winston Graham
Sapevo che era carina Sapevo che era sposata Mio padre disse, per legge ti è vietata Vidi che era impudente L'amore no non sente Non avevo mai visto una malizia così avventata. Senza una speranza vera Andai da lei una sera: In amore come in guerra, la libertà ti è data. I miei pensieri buoni svaniti in un momento Non mi fermò nessun avvertimento Non avevo mai visto una malizia così
~ Winston Graham
You see people every day who take a chance and damn the consequences. Many of them suffer for it, but I do not think they come off worst. The people who come off worst are the people who draw back at the last moment and spend the rest of their lives regretting it.
~ Winston Graham
Someone—a Latin poet—had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.
~ Winston Graham
Human beings were blind, crazy creatures, he thought, forever walking the tightrope of the present condemned to ever changing shifts and expedients to maintain the balance of existence, not knowing even as far ahead as tomorrow what the actions of today would bring. How could one plan a year ahead, how influence the imponderables?
~ Winston Graham
le spalle simili al bianco cuore di un fiore. [...]
~ Winston Graham
Per me, Verity, l'inverno è finito. L'inverno e molto altro. Senza di te, non so che cosa ne sarebbe stato di me. Se ora l'inverno sta arrivando per te, pensi che potrei mai rifiutarmi di aiutarti solo perché vedo le cose in un altro modo? Non posso farmi piacere l'idea che tu sposi Blamey, ma questo è solo perché il tuo benessere mi sta immensamente a cuore. Questo però non significa che non ti aiuterò in ogni modo possibile.»
~ Winston Graham
Tabitha Bethia, la gatta rognosa, miagolava allungandosi e stiracchiandosi davanti al fuoco e un ciocco di legno si spostava nel focolare sbriciolandosi in cenere.
~ Winston Graham
we might share this road as far as Trenwith?' 'You're staying with your uncle?' 'Yes.
~ Winston Graham
His parents should be here soon. I shall feel happier when they are able to take the responsibility.
~ Winston Graham
I still don't know where the evil comes from that makes men bestial to others like you have told . . . . Perhaps it is because you have so little evil in yourself. No, no, I do not think so. That is not what I meant at all. I do not believe that ordinary men have this evil. Perhaps it is like a fever that blows in the air, like cholera, like the plague; it blows in the air and settles on men -- or a town -- or a nation -- and everyone in it, or nearly everyone, falls a victim.
~ Winston Graham
That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.
~ Winston Graham
stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned
~ Winston Graham