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title: "1 Simple Thought Quotes By Helen Hodgman"
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> [“Life's so simple, thought Jill, if only you can strike the right note. All it needed was a little give-and-take. She'd often said so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/life-s-so-simple-thought-jill-if-only-you-can-strike-the-right-note/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

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## More by Helen Hodgman

> [“He saw with sudden awful clarity that if he turned tail now and if, by some appalling miracle, she should survive, he'd never hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/he-saw-with-sudden-awful-clarity-that-if-he-turned-tail-now-and-if-by/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/she-wrote-sniffing-back-the-tears-that-flowed-over-the-version-of/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/the-sun-was-up-stuck-like-half-a-tinned-apricot-on-a-sky-awash-with/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/life-s-too-short-to-be-sat-at-home-writing-all-the-time/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“Jack amused himself by visualising her head creaking open on hinges concealed by her tartan Alice band, and releasing all the furry folk with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/jack-amused-himself-by-visualising-her-head-creaking-open-on-hinges/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“Life's so simple, thought Jill, if only you can strike the right note. All it needed was a little give-and-take. She'd often said so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/life-s-so-simple-thought-jill-if-only-you-can-strike-the-right-note/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/jack-and-jill-slept-wrapped-in-each-other-s-arms-untroubled-by-any/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/she-had-six-months-at-most-left-to-live-she-had-cancer-she-hissed-a/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/off-with-the-old-and-on-with-the-new-and-never-a-second-s-thought/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/he-was-dazed-the-soft-thoughts-sinking-slowly-in-a-son-even-a/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

> [“She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence, total silence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-hodgman/she-usually-worked-at-night-claiming-that-the-racket-he-made-about/)

[Helen Hodgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-hodgman/)

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