# Quote — P.D. James, A Certain Justice

> A career which had begun so full of promise but which, like a stream with too feeble a spring, had spent itself with a sad inevitability among the sandy shallows of unrealised ambition.

- Author: [P.D. James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james.md)
- Book: [A Certain Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice.md)
- Page: 229
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice/a-career-which

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> "I was glad to give up teaching, at least in London, glad to be rid of noise and violence and staff-room politics, and the constant fight to keep order."

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> Mrs Buckley was revealed as a slight, nervous-looking woman with a small precisely formed mouth between bulging cheeks, which gave her the appearance of a hamster.

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> But of course she knew it. Chambers was a hotbed of gossip. People spoke in front of her. Gossip permeated the very air as if by a mysterious process of osmosis.

p. 215 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice/but-of-course.md)