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- You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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