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  • #1
    D.E. Stevenson
    “There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
    D. E. Stevenson, Listening Valley

  • #2
    D.E. Stevenson
    “...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
    Dorothy Emily Stevenson, Listening Valley
    tags: books

  • #3
    D.E. Stevenson
    “Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”
    D. E. Stevenson, Listening Valley

  • #4
    D.E. Stevenson
    “What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep…thought Mr. Abbott sleepily…following each other’s lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn’t see what the one lacked and the other possessed.”
    D.E. Stevenson, Miss Buncle's Book

  • #5
    D.E. Stevenson
    “Books are people,'' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.”
    D.E. Stevenson

  • #6
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
    Elizabeth Goudge

  • #7
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
    Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

  • #8
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...”
    Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

  • #9
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “she had long accepted the fact
    that happiness is like swallows in
    Spring. It may come and nest under
    your eaves or it may not. You cannot
    command it. When you expect to be
    happy you are not, when you don't
    expect to be happy there's suddenly
    Easter in your soul, though it be
    midwinter.”
    Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

  • #10
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.”
    Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree

  • #11
    Elizabeth Goudge
    “Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”
    Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #14
    Ruth Rendell
    “Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

  • #15
    Ruth Rendell
    “I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.”
    Ruth Rendell

  • #16
    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    Alex Haley

  • #17
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #18
    Catherine Cookson
    “Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.”
    Catherine Cookson, The Girl

  • #19
    Catherine Cookson
    “You have never kissed me. Patted me, hugged me, but you've never kissed me."
    "Oh, Rosie, Rosie." His face looked on the point of laughter, then his lips fell gently on hers and he held the kiss for some time. Now, pressing her face from him, he said "That's merely an introduction. When your cheek is better I'll do it properly.”
    Catherine Cookson, The Obsession

  • #20
    Catherine Cookson
    “The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.”
    Catherine Cookson, The Girl

  • #21
    Kristin Hannah
    “As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
    Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

  • #22
    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #23
    Kristin Hannah
    “That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
    Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

  • #24
    Kristin Hannah
    “Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #25
    Kristin Hannah
    “To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.”
    Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

  • #26
    Kristin Hannah
    “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
    Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

  • #27
    Kristin Hannah
    “Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #28
    Ken Follett
    “Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

  • #29
    Katie Flynn
    “been give a second chance, Nurse, an’ I’m grabbing it wi’ both hands.’ And presently, when the tea was finished and the biscuits crunched down, Rose snuggled under the covers, careful to keep her injured arm away from her body, and was soon fast asleep –”
    Katie Flynn, Rose Of Tralee

  • #30
    D.E. Stevenson
    “In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.”
    D E Stevenson



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