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

> How odd, he thought, that one could get used to beauty [i.e. in one's wife]. Once he had thought that any price would be worth paying if he could possess it, know it to be exclusively his, feed on it, be comforted, exalted, even sanctified by it. But you couldn't possess beauty any more than you could possess another human being.

- 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: 99
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice/how-odd-he-thought

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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.

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