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Lorraine
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“A novel?” I said. “How do you write a novel?” Gladys advised me to return to the wellspring. “The world is a very old place, and you’re never going to tell a completely original story,” she said. “The reason the archetypal stories have
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“I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
“It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined optimism on everybody's part rather than the truth. After all, if a girl is a princess, she is undeniably a princess, and the best must be made of it; and how much pleasanter it would be if she were good and beautiful. There's always hope that if enough people believe as though she is, a little of it will rub off.”
― The Door in the Hedge
― The Door in the Hedge
“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
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Lorraine’s 2025 Year in Books
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