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This was so fun! Witty, fairy-tale-ish, and a very zippy pace. I'd read more by this author.I don't go for fantasy or fairy tales in a wholesale kind of way, but I'm pleased to discover the occasional exception, and this is one of them! I think that ...more "
“I’ve a propensity for scratching pen to paper,” he said. “And I’ve been told I spin a good tale.” His was not a voice borne of an upper-class rearing. There was something of the middle class in his tenor, but it felt acquired. If she had
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“Angus turned to Domenica. "This view always makes me feel sad. I don't know why, but it does." He drew in his breath, savouring the freshness of the air. Freshly mown grass was upon it, and the smell of lavender, too, from Elspeth's kitchen garden. "Well, perhaps not sad--more wistful, perhaps, which is one notch below actual sadness.”
― Love in the Time of Bertie
― Love in the Time of Bertie
“I watched too, with that sort of lonely delight--the one shadow upon it being that it is so lonely--with which all one's life one is accustomed to watch beautiful and vanishing things.”
― An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
― An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
“One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. "Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time?" he asked. Matthew laughed. "There's no need to apologize for simple things." "But is cheddar simple?" Domenica enquired. "Just because there's a lot of it, does that make it simple?”
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“They talked about the sorts of things they liked to talk about when there were no important decisions to be made and when the conversation could wander comfortably along uncluttered shores.”
― The Joy and Light Bus Company
― The Joy and Light Bus Company
“He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and husbands, it seemed to him, did not say that sort of thing: it was all left unsaid – assumed, perhaps, but not spelled out. That was the problem with life in general – we slipped into a rut in which we failed to state what we meant by the things we did. Our lives, Matthew thought, can become like silent films without the subtitles.”
― The Enigma of Garlic
― The Enigma of Garlic
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