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"Your mother must know that one day, not so far away, you'll want to leave her. . .She won't decide when that will be, and she goes on caring for you both and trying at the same time to be ready for her life to become suddenly empty."

— Oct 06, 2025 01:48PM

In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics)

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Julie G is on page 206 of 224

Hilariously, the mothers joked and teased, ecstatically their daughters recounted escapades and outings, parties, holidays abroad. 'Poor Lou, I did nothing for her,' Kate suddenly thought. It is a most severe pain--the realisation that one has failed one's child, done less than one might have done.

— Oct 10, 2025 07:15AM

Julie G is on page 157 of 224

"You wouldn't care to be old, would you? And lonely? And knowing that everything has already happened and hasn't been any great shakes either?"

— Oct 08, 2025 01:53PM

Julie G is on page 141 of 224

"We're all of us just passing time," she thought, feeling irritated. . . It seemed to her that it was worse for herself, without religion, to be squandering her life, expecting no other and chilled by the passage of time.

— Oct 08, 2025 06:46AM

Julie G is on page 134 of 224

"What do we get out of it, I wonder--being parents?"

— Oct 08, 2025 06:23AM

Julie G is on page 107 of 224

"I always think one can get through such a lot of work while one's having a good old chatter."

— Oct 07, 2025 06:23AM

Julie G is on page 41 of 224

Tom was reading the back page of a newspaper and Lou leant across the table to peer at the headlines on the front.
"What a horrible world," she said. "It's like the Middle Ages, all dark and smelling of blood. I wonder if I shall be lucky enough to see thirty."

— Oct 05, 2025 06:58PM