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“It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”
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“Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”
― Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
― Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
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“I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859”
― Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
― Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
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