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> [“When you’ve loved somebody for a long time, and then it stops, it’s akin to an amputation in that you go on feeling the cut-off part long after it’s been taken away. All sorts of nervous and emotional impulses set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/when-you-ve-loved-somebody-for-a-long-time-and-then-it-stops-it-s/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

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## More by Lynne Reid Banks

> [“Even to be impaled by a happy fate makes you jerk against the knowledge of inevitability, of final commitment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/even-to-be-impaled-by-a-happy-fate-makes-you-jerk-against-the/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/when-i-was-your-age-i-met-a-man-older-than-myself-quite-a-bit-older-i/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/i-remember-the-mid-50s-well-it-was-when-my-life-changed-and-i-left/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother’s,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/cupboard-the-strange-little-key-which-had-been-his-great-grandmother-s/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“Among the innumerable books on Addy’s shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: ‘What is moral is what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/among-the-innumerable-books-on-addy-s-shelves-was-one-by-ernest/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/the-50s-in-general-are-written-off-as-a-boring-decade-following-the/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/the-very-people-you-trusted-most-could-become-like-strangers-in-their/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/most-men-if-you-just-tell-them-what-to-do-in-a-businesslike-fashion/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“It seems to me those are just the ones who have to do without, because, in the final analysis, they can. And men basically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/it-seems-to-me-those-are-just-the-ones-who-have-to-do-without-because/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [Innocence is ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/innocence-is-ignorance/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/oh-she-s-alright-it-s-just-that-i-don-t-want-to-get-mixed-up-with/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/i-know-what-is-wrong-you-havn-t-decided-what-you-want-she-d/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“Work, that supposed panacea, the great Taker-of-Your-Mind-Off, proved just about as totally useless and in fact irrelevant as those ‘Easy Childbirth’ theories are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/work-that-supposed-panacea-the-great-taker-of-your-mind-off-proved/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/what-did-i-tell-you-when-you-were-little-girl-the-only-way-we-women/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

> [“That’s my whole trouble. I don’t seem capable of living for the moment. It’s as if the future threw back a shadow—a great black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-reid-banks/that-s-my-whole-trouble-i-don-t-seem-capable-of-living-for-the-moment/)

[Lynne Reid Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-reid-banks/)

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