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- The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more…
- All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
- I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People…
- The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
- You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It…
- I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was…
- When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still…
- But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just…
- I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at…
- It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the…
- The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an…
- But in the end I managed it, and the instant I saw her again, at that recovery Centre in Dover, all our differenceswhile they didn't…
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