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When I finally practiced Sherlock Holmes’s philosophy—to observe, not just to see—I understood what Austen had been telling us this whole time: Austen never viewed herself as the lone great woman writer of her era. And she wasn’t.
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Alexander McCall Smith
“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.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the Time of Bertie

Jenny Colgan
“If you’ve ever flown into London, you’ll know that they often have to put you in a holding pattern, where you circle about, waiting for a landing slot. And I never usually mind it; I like seeing the vast expanse of the huge city below me, that unfathomable number of people busying away, the idea that every single one of them is full of hopes and dreams and disappointments, street after street after street, millions and millions of souls and dreams. I always find it pleasingly mind-boggling.”
Jenny Colgan, The Cafe by the Sea

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“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.”
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall

Alexander McCall Smith
“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?”
Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith
“It was the beauty of the country before them that had done it. Scotland was a place of attenuated light, of fragility, of a beauty that broke the heart.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the Time of Bertie

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