Tag: All Time Favourites
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Hamnet
“I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can’t have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience.”
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Small Pleasures
“Never before had she considered that all these experiences that had nearly demolished her had built her into something better.”
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
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Educated
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
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A Family Affair
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of childbearing age must be in want of a husband”
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The Gold Diggers
“We all know our final destination but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there.”
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Conjure Women
“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were…two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
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