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Nabila Chowdhury
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"The people, for the most part, unhappily endured the weather: shop-keepers & tradesmen, men & women in the post office & the dole queue, the mart, the coffee shop and supermarket, the bingo hall, the pubs and the chipper all commented, in their own ways, on the cold & what rain had fallen, asking what was in it – and could there be something in it – for who could believe that there, again, was another raw-cold day?"
— 18 hours, 19 min ago
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Nabila Chowdhury
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"What was it all for?Furlong wondered.The work&the constant worry.Getting up in the dark&going to the yard, making the deliveries,one after another,the whole day long,then coming home in the dark&trying to wash the black off himself&sitting into a dinner at the table&falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing,yet again.Might things never change or develop into something else,or new?"
— 44 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"Mrs Wilson had rubbed the top of his head and praised him, as though he was one of her own. ‘You’re a credit to yourself,’ she’d told him. And for a whole day or more, Furlong had gone around feeling a foot taller, believing, in his heart, that he mattered as much as any other child."
— 49 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"Before long, he caught a hold of himself and concluded that nothing ever did happen again; to each was given days and chances which wouldn’t come back around. And wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come."
— 49 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"He’d had moments, in his marriage, when he’d almost feared Eileen and had envied her mettle, her red-hot instincts."
— 50 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind."
— 50 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"Before going back into the house, he’d washed his face at the horse-trough, breaking the ice on the surface, pushing his hands down deep in the cold and keeping them there, to divert his pain, until he could no longer feel it."
— 51 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?"
— 51 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"But it cut him, all the same, to see one of his own so upset by the sight of what other children craved and he could not help but wonder if she’d be brave enough or able for what the world had in store."
— 53 minutes ago
Nabila Chowdhury
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"The times were raw but Furlong felt all the more determined to carry on, to keep his head down and stay on the right side of people, and to keep providing for his girls and see them getting on and completing their education at St Margaret’s, the only good school for girls in the town."
— 18 hours, 16 min ago
