Quotes from Tasha Alexander

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me." "Something had to be done, she said, "and it was a very ugly vase.

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.

The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.

start her gradual return to society. Black gowns gave way to grey, mauve, and lavender, and could now be made from silk instead of crape or bombazine. To alert the members of her circle that she was ready to face society, a widow would leave calling cards at the houses of her acquaintances. She would begin to accept more invitations, always being careful only to attend events that were not too joyful and to behave in ways respectful of the memory of her husband

As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people's. I had

I was a bit vague on the details when relaying the story to him." "I might just come to like you, Emily. But you should never withhold details—no matter how small—from him. A marriage requires absolute honesty." "I agree, of course. It's just that—" "There can be no just thats," she said. "Full disclosure on every subject or you'll mire yourselves in a web of deceit. What seems insignificant

Built in the early days after the Romans colonized Campania, the structure was vastly older than Rome's famous Coliseum.

today may prove essential in the future." I could not argue with her reasoning. "It's sound advice and you know it," she continued. "So don't play Oscar Wilde. In this case, the only thing to do is not to pass it on." I smiled, relieved as the tension between us dissipated. "Thank you,

Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.

my soul's far better part…

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been