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I suppose growing up is always a bit lonely.

"Listening to music comes second only to reading."

It seemed that you could cycle and walk until you were physically exhausted and ready to drop, but nothing would still the ever-present and restless anxieties which rat-raced around in the inside of her head.

She was reduced to nothing, a pin-point of humanity, and all at once was seized by a terrible fright, the old panic of disorientation, and nonentity. Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going and what will happen when I get there?

It is ironic that one spends so many years bringing up a child and then, just when she begins to be a friend and an equal, she has to be abandoned and life continued on without her.

"I think 'bitch' is a rather good word. And it only means a lady dog. There's nothing rude about that."

"You know, sometimes I get this most extraordinary feeling. . . as though I were in a sort of limbo, without any identity."

They had climbed the tower and stood at the top in the buffeting wind, and he had pointed out interesting landmarks to her. It was like having all the world revealed, a huge and marvellously coloured map: farmland, patch-worked like a quilt into small fields, green velvet for pasture and brown corduroy velvet for plough. . .

Okay, folks, this is the same size as LONESOME DOVE, so Ms. Pilcher better have brought it, when she wrote this in the 90s! No pressure, but let's hope it was her magnum opus.