“It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone’s life, but towards the end of that week Sebastian said rather sourly: “You and mummy seem very thick,” and I realized that in fact I was being drawn into intimacy by swift, imperceptible stages, for she was impatient of any human relationship that fell short of it.” JealousyCharacterisation Book:Brideshead Revisited Source: Brideshead Revisited
“He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that his body was taut, all of it: also made of steel; that it only worked because it was at an intolerable tension, and that it was our sensation of that tension which had exhausted us, which could no longer be borne. He was the wrong spring which had been put into our machine, that had made Claude ill, George foolish, Boris an anxiety.” Metaphor1932CharacterisationSeveral OccasionsScylla And Charybdis Book:The Complete Stories Source: The Complete Stories
“If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.” WritingPlotMirabelle BevanCharacterisation Author:Sara Sheridan
“Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.” WritingSara SheridanMirabelle BevanCharacterisationDescriminationVesta Churchill Author:Sara Sheridan
“Wagner's gods and heroes are exactly like human beings, on a grand scale: every human virtue and every human temptation is there. Tolkien leaves a good half of them out. No one in Middle Earth has any sexual relations at all. I think their children must be delivered by post.” HumanityOpinionHumourReviewsWagnerLord Of The RingsTolkienCharacterisationRing Cycle Book:Dæmon Voices Source: Dæmon Voices