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Time Quotes by Louisa Young

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“... what he could or couldn’t say to them. Everything he had to say: I love you, it’s hell, I walk on corpses and breathe death, it’s only a matter of time before I prove a coward, and I don’t…

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“They did not talk about the larger present, so circumscribed, so uncontrollable. Their little present was two bodies and a bed, and that was the entirety of time and place: them, there, in their little room, awkward, laughing, happy, warm,…

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“Other people", Rose thought. "Other people and their bloody love.”

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“Last year we had many smallish hopes, made many smallish attempts, suffered many smallish failures, and we died one by one. This year a…

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“More talk of love would lead to the difficulties surrounding...Oh, God, he loved her, he did, she did, they did, it was. It was.”

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“He's a man, she thought, and the very word gave her s frisson, a lurch inside.”

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“He was astounded, sometimes, by the fluid articulacy of his own fury.”

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“Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the…

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“No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.”

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“They were completely happy. They couldn't stop smiling at each other, beaming like fools till their cheeks ached.”

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“Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.”

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“... what he could or couldn’t say to them. Everything he had to say: I love you, it’s hell, I walk on corpses and…

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“Look how beautiful the green lawns of the park are in the misty evening light, unmuddied, smooth, alive, no holes, no bodies, no barbed…

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“Papa," she said easily, happily, walking across the park with him to the Albert Hall. "What is it like to be in love?" "Oh,…

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