4 Quotes & Sayings By Mm Kaye

M.M. Kaye is the author of more than thirty best-selling novels and novellas, including The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, The Kerry Case, and The Masked Ball, all of which have been filmed or made into television movies. She is also the author of several successful series: The Forever Song trilogy, the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children books, and the House of Secrets series. Her books have been translated into twenty different languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide Read more

She lives in England.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead...
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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. M.M. Kaye
It is not an easy thing to be a woman...
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It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. M.M. Kaye
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Oh don't be pompous and gloomy, darling, " chided Amalfi. "There are thousands of places just as lovely as this. And as peaceful."" That's where you are wrong, " said Tyson, leaning his elbows on the warm stone. "I've seen a lot of the world, A hell of a lot of it! But there's something special about this island Something that I haven't met anywhere else Do you know what is the most familiar sound in Zanzibar?-laughter! Walk through the streets of the little city almost any time of day or night, and you'll hear it. People laughing. There is a gaiety and good humour about them that is strangely warming to even such a corrugated, corroded and eroded heart as mine and this is the only place that I have hit upon where black and white and every shade in between 'em appear to able to live in complete friendliness and harmony, with no colour bar. It's living proof and a practical demonstration that it can be done. . M.M. Kaye