In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lo…

- Kylie Tennant

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

- Kylie Tennant

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

- Kylie Tennant

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of …

- Kylie Tennant

When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?

- Kylie Tennant

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

- Kylie Tennant