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  1. P.D. James _ Shroud for a Nightingale

    Here was normality, sanity, a world she recognized and knew. This emotion, suspiciously like regret, at witnessing the violent destruction of Nightingale House was really too ridiculous
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  2. P.D. James _ Death in Holy Orders

    When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other minds.
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  3. P.D. James _ Death in Holy Orders

    The apparent suicide, the certified natural death, the brutal murder - there was a cord which connected them. Its strength might be tenuous and its path convoluted, but when he had traced it, it would lead him to the heart of the mystery.
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  4. P.D. James _ Death in Holy Orders

    What it was he had chiefly gained: a fascination with the complexity of the intellectual bastions which men could construct to withstand the tides of disbelief. His own disbelief had remained unshaken."
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  5. P.D. James _ The Private Patient

    The world is a beautiful and terrible place. Deeds of horror are committed every minute and in the end those we love die. If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars. But we have love. It may seem a frail defence against the horrors of the world, but we must hold fast and believe in it, for it is all that we have.
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  6. P.D. James _ Original Sin

    Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages.
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  7. P.D. James _ Original Sin

    In a word all the things of the body are as a river, and the things of the soul as a dream and a vapour; and life is a warfare and a pilgrim's sojourn, and fame after death is only forgetfulness.
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  8. P.D. James _ Sleep No More: Six Murderous

    The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.
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  9. P.D. James _ Sleep No More: Six Murderous

    To collect me. That is what we can so easily be made to feel at seventy-three; an object, not exactly precious but likely to be brittle, to be carefully collected, conscientiously cared for and as conscientiously returned.
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  10. P.D. James _ A Certain Justice

    That's one of the frustrations of this job. You meet people, question them, get intrigued by them, eliminate them from inquiries and never see them again.
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  11. P.D. James _ A Certain Justice

    The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie.
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  12. P.D. James _ The Mistletoe Murder And Other

    Perfect fear casteth out love, thought Gabriel. The aphorism pleased him.
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