"When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if she was settling down, sleeping in the same bed every night, the darkness uninterrupted by any hint of emergency. It had felt as if all her difficulties were over."

Stability, Comfort, Transition, Life

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"Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability."

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"Love that is founded on decision is stable and strong and it will endure any trial."

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"Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip."

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"I guess I crave stability."

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"No social stability without individual stability."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Sitting at the old patio table she'd cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She'd come here with too many expectations."

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"Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty."

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"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation."

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Identity

"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."

Writing

"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

Politics

"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."

Courage

"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."

Intuition

"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."

Grief

"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."

Experience

"Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you."

Writing

"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

Relationship

"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."

Knowledge