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“And your Winston Churchill says such good things about the pilots (the Polish ones, too).”
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
“What?" she asks, but I don't answer. Instead I kiss her, one time, and try to tell her in that single gesture everything that she'll forget as soon as she turns away. I tell her I love her. I tell her I'll miss her. And then I let her go.”
― Girl of Nightmares
― Girl of Nightmares
“She crossed over death to call me. I crossed through Hell to find her.”
― Girl of Nightmares
― Girl of Nightmares
“I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.”
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
“Books smell, they creak, they talk. You hold in your hand now a living, breathing, whispering thing, a book. Philip”
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
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