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“I do love this physical world. I love this physical life with you. And the air and the country. The backyard, the gravel in the back alley. The grass. The cool nights. Lying in bed talking with you in the dark.”
― Our Souls at Night
― Our Souls at Night
“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.”
― Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding
― Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding
“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
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