"Day after day we looked for rain, and……" — Peter Mayle
"Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before."
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Peter Mayle
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25 Quotes by Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle has 25 quotes on this site.
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Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.
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I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
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Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.
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Best advice I've ever received: Finish.
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Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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