3 Quotes by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

There are certain winter days when bed and bath seem to be the only two tolerable places in the world.

Absence does make the heart grow fonder – at first, at any rate. Mrs. Bunting was well aware of that. During the long course of hers and Bunting’s mild courting, they’d been separated for about three months, and it was that three months which had made up her mind for her. She had got so used to Bunting that she couldn’t do without him, and she had felt – oddest fact of all – acutely, miserably jealous.