Oops, spoiler alert! This is definitely going to mess up their relationship!
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A gal after my own heart!
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Hooray for the novelists!
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And he would know, he had arguably the prettiest knees in Britain in 1940!
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Surely not everyone is writing a book? Oh they are? My mistake...
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If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.

Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

#SundaySentence
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A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.

Sarah Winman, Still Life

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When people say it's been done before...
Just ask Poirot!
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This is still my No. 1 favourite Miss Silver quote of all. I remember I spat tea all over myself the first time I read this. So Miss Silver, so accidentally funny. From the excellent Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth, first pubbed 1939.
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My 2nd favourite quote from a Patricia Wentworth #cozymystery:
Miss Silver: '...we should be all the better of a nice cup of tea.'
So true.
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Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa

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Patricia Wentworth quote number 3!
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"How awful," he said, "the way time passes!"
, and he spent the whole afternoon watching it rain on the begonias.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One hundred years of solitude

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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson

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"Poetry is how we endure the unendurable. Sometimes it has to be a lie."

All in Baskerville typeface. Clear and beautiful.

Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

#SundaySentence or two
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