Conditions of Faith

It is a ready fault in all young people impatient for the truth to judge the past by the standards of the present—the only standards you possess, after all, and so you mistakenly believe them to be timeless and universal.

‘It is an irreversible condition, you know, motherhood.

‘It is my conviction that Père Delattre has proved himself a man of considerable determination and resourcefulness in this somewhat difficult country of yours.’

His manner was abrupt, faintly aggressive, impatient.

But really his discontent is in his soul and he was born with it.

Nabil is like all rich men. He is discontent.

She could endure no more of it.

Emily failed to keep the hostility from her voice.

Paris is a place to lose yourself in. Here we can forget and be forgotten.

he said firmly, as if he admonished a child for touching something it had been forbidden to touch.