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> [“He pushed her nails away from his eyes, accepting her bites as if they were no part of him. He pulled the cloth away from her throat, gripped it. Her screaming stopped. Her eyes started tears, died, grew big. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/he-pushed-her-nails-away-from-his-eyes-accepting-her-bites-as-if-they/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

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## More by Winston Graham

> [“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/yet-although-he-could-not-quite-work-this-out-in-simple-terms-in-his/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/when-you-bring-an-idealised-relationship-down-to-the-level-of-an/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/it-is-hopeless-for-older-people-to-tell-younger-ones-particularly/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/give-me-the-comma-of-imperfect-striving-thus-to-find-zest-in-the/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Tedn’t right. Tedn’t tidy. Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t clean. Tedn’t good enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/tedn-t-right-tedn-t-tidy-tedn-t-fair-tedn-t-clean-tedn-t-good-enough/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/he-was-deeply-annoyed-at-having-to-leave-the-fair-before-he-was-drunk/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Perhaps,” said Demelza, trembling all over. “Perhaps I’d ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it’s so long since we met.” “I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/perhaps-said-demelza-trembling-all-over-perhaps-i-d-ought-to-have/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Give me some surety if you want to continue. It is not late yet.” Ross offered his gold watch, which had belonged to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/give-me-some-surety-if-you-want-to-continue-it-is-not-late-yet-ross/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/not-for-the-first-time-he-was-conscious-of-emotional-lights-and/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with her in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/sir-hugh-squeezed-her-arm-so-often-that-demelza-began-to-wonder-if/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“All the conflicting feeling inside her suddenly found an outlet. The mixed motives for asking him in—the liking, the affection, the feminine curiosity, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/all-the-conflicting-feeling-inside-her-suddenly-found-an-outlet-the/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“It’s gone!” he shouted. “The brandy!” said Prudie, lurching to her feet. “’Ere, who’s stolen it? ’Twas there an hour gone—” “Not all three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/it-s-gone-he-shouted-the-brandy-said-prudie-lurching-to-her-feet-ere/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already but not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/help-help-help-i-am-lost-in-the-very-deeps-of-the-earth-not-eight/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/tedn-sense-tedn-reasonable-tedn-right-tedn-proper-tedn-true/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

> [“He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/he-felt-righteous-and-unashamed-he-decided-to-go-to-bed-sober/)

[Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/)

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