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Book: The Lighthouse
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
He was thirty-four when he married and the decision was less an impulse of sexual or psychological need than a conviction that there was something slightly suspect about a heterosexual who remained openly celibate, a suggestion either of eccentricity or, more shaming, of the inability to attract a suitable mate.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
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P.D. James _ The Lighthouse
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
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