"Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to……" — Jessica Day George
"Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them."
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42 Quotes by Jessica Day George
Jessica Day George has 42 quotes on this site.
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Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.
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If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.
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I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.
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It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift…
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No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.
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What does it say? Does he love you madly?
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But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might…
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Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips.
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Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?
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Dancing? You, Poppy?" Marianne shook her head slowly. I never thought..." Rose looked concerned. She even felt Poppy's head for…
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Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around…
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You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was…
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More Burning Quotes
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
— Ansel Adams
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it…
— Emily Blunt
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up…
— George H. W. Bush
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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