“You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?”
Source: The Lighthouse
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Famous P. D. James Quotes
“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: A Taste for Death
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men
“Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.”
Source: The Children of Men
“It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.”
Source: The Children of Men
“Every island to a child is a treasure island.”
Source: The Lighthouse
Source: The Lighthouse
“Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
Source: Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels
Source: Innocent Blood
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men
“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.”
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men
“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
Source: The Children of Men
“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
Source: The Children of Men
Source: P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness
“Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.”
Source: The Children of Men
Source: Death Comes to Pemberley: Enhanced Edition
Source: P. D. James’s Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin
Source: Shroud for a Nightingale
“We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.”
“There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.”
Source: Devices and Desires
Source: Devices and Desires
Source: The Children of Men
Source: The Children of Men