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The Enchanted April
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Katabasis
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Maggie O'Farrell
“For Agnes, the walk to the graveyard is both too slow and too fast. She cannot bear the rows and rows of peering eyes, raking over them, sealing an image of her son’s shrouded body inside their lids, thieving that essence of him. These are people who saw him every day, passing by their doors, below their windows. They exchanged words with him, ruffled his hair, exhorted him to hurry if he was late for the school bell. He played with their children, darted in and out of their houses and shops. He carried messages for them, petted their dogs, stroked the backs of their cats as they slept on sunny windowsills. And now their lives are carrying on, unchanged, their dogs still yawning by the fireplaces, their children still whining for supper, while he is no more. So she cannot bear their gaze, cannot meet their eyes. She doesn’t want their sympathy and their prayers and their murmured words. She hates the way the people part to let them past and then, behind them, regroup, erasing their passage, as if it were nothing, as if it never were. She wishes to scratch the ground, perhaps with a hoe, to score the streets beneath her, so that there will forever be a mark, for it always to be known that this way Hamnet came. He was here.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Rosamunde Pilcher
“It's important, always, to have something to look forward to.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home

Rosamunde Pilcher
“Darling, tears are for the dead, not the living.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home

Rosamunde Pilcher
“Waiting's the worst. Waiting for news. Trying to pretend that the worst isn't going to happen. Mustn't happen.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home

Rosamunde Pilcher
“Hope is terribly important. Like being constant. Keeping faith. And this hateful war can't go on forever. I don't quite know how or when, but it will end. Someday. Perhaps sooner than any of us imagine.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home

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