Everlasting Quote by Graham Swift

“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”

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“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

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Literature is the voice of the human heart.

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