Crystal Middlemas Quotes

#1. Without thinking, [Will] spoke.
'Halt? Are you awake?'
'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable.
'Oh. Sorry.'
'Shut up.'
He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

John Flanagan

#2. It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

Klaus Topfer

#3. Biology, they said. You can postpone it, but you can't prevent it. She'd watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were.

Chloe Garner

#4. It must be very hard to be a mother. All those years of knowing everything about your daughter, of dressing her and bathing her and being intimately acquainted with her every need and want, and then one day you wake up and realize you don't even know what kind of dress to buy her at Clery's.

Jessie Ann Foley

#5. I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Young people ... who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of others.

James Lee Burke

#7. We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings.

Charles Dance