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read in January 2008
Monique said:
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I love this book, although it reads sometimes a little slow. The story is brilliantly written and I love the links to the Old English tales with persons like Merriman Lyon, John Weyland Smith and Herne the Hunter. A pity that the movie made from this
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
“It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there.”
― Beautiful Creatures
― Beautiful Creatures
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
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“De liefde tussen mensen loopt zelden synchroon. Mensen vinden elkaar op verkeerde momenten, overtreden wetten en regels om de feiten alsnog naar hun hand te zetten, bagatelliseren de gevolgen van ontrouw, ontkennen de overmijdelijke pijn waarmee afscheid gepaard gaat.”
― Zeevonk
― Zeevonk
“My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.”
― Moon Over Soho
― Moon Over Soho
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