"Hard to believe that so nearby, just across……" — Lauren Willig
"Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax."
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20 Quotes by Lauren Willig
Lauren Willig has 20 quotes on this site.
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Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
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They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
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Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
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They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in…
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Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like…
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Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
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Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you'…
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I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding…
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Quite definitely a Bingley
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It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak…
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There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and…
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More Across Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
— Drew Barrymore
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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