Quotes from Winston Graham

Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with her in dark and drafty places. In one room, where the wind was so high that they might have been out of doors, the rear lantern went out and Sir Hugh put his short, thick arm around her waist. But she slipped away with a faint rustle of silk and moved quickly up to Ross. The stables were the best-

So much had happened in their relationship since the angry scene of last August that they met like strangers, remembering the old emotions but no longer feeling them.

Un cattivo trattamento rende feroci anche i più dolci di noi.

These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least not to be proud of. But perhaps I am nearer the earth than you. Like Garrick, I can smell a friend.

Il pensiero di Demelza gli scaldò la mente e lo illuminò come l'arrivo delle candele aveva illuminato la sala.

The sense of separateness from others, of loneliness, had not often been so strong as that morning. He wondered if there was any true content in life, if all men were as troubled as he with a sense of disillusion. It had not always been so. His childhood had been happy enough in the unthinking way that childhoods are.

inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach.

To them the mine was a benevolent Moloch to whom they fed their children at an early age and from whom they took their daily bread.

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace.

Ross thought, There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days.

quando il cielo si riempiva di nubi basse e il mare era grigio e triste come un amante abbandonato [...]

si odiano sempre i testimoni della propria umiliazione e della propria inutilità. [...]

If there are two feelings, then I don't think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction

Tutti gli esseri umani nascevano uguali e i privilegi erano una creazione dell'uomo.

Tedn't right. Tedn't tidy. Tedn't fair. Tedn't clean. Tedn't good enough.

Perchè se lei non riusciva ad abbandonare un amico, nemmeno lui poteva farlo.

Alla fine, sotto la sporcizia che le copriva il viso, comparve un vago rossore.

Qualcuno - un poeta latino - aveva scritto che l'eternità consisteva nel trattenere e possedere la pienezza della vita in un unico istante, nel qui e nell'ora, il passato, il presente e il futuro

She pushed the bolt across the door and sat abruptly in the first chair. Her romance was over; even though she rebelled against the fact, she knew that it was so. She felt faint and sick and desperately tired of being alive. If death could come quietly and peacefully she would accept it, would sink into it as one sank into a bed wanting only sleep and self-forgetfulness.

like a pall. One wonders how Wesley dared to go there.

He had planned so much for Julia, had watched her grow from a scarcely separable entity, seen her nature unfold, the very beginning of traits and characteristics make their quaint showing. It was hardly believable that they would never develop, that all that potential sweetness should dry up at its fount and turn to dust. Hardly believable and hardly bearable.

Andrew aveva preso dimora nel suo cuore o si era preso una parte del suo cuore, e niente sarebbe stato più come prima.