“They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God.… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“There lies the whole crux of the matter; what cannot be prevented must be borne” — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“It was not the first time - it was far from the first time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer,… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“Suddenly Damask found herself staring down at the flowers through a dazzle of tears. The words sounded so innocent and so disarming - she… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
