Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Hurt me back when I hurt you and I would always love you for it.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us.

I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!

I am single and happy.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

I would love to be on Broadway!

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering