“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?” — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
“She became fascinated by the statue of Edith Cavell and would stand at the base of it in the freezing cold of a December morning, looking up: - Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone-. Sometimes those words made her cry. The tears would come uncontrollably and they would not stop. And in those… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share
“My uncle read me Omar Khayyam. In Arabic. Not Turkish or even English. I tried so hard to understand it. I would ask him what it all meant but he always said the pleasure was in the finding out... the discovery. He said you can keep some poems by you your whole life and they will only reveal parts of… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share
“She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.” — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
“I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.” — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
“But life. It rushes by and then you think you'll see people... You think you'll do things and have time for this and time… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
“I feel as if I'm disappearing. I wake, I work, I eat, I sleep. No family, no great career. I could disappear tomorrow, like… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
