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1 " Clichés really do describe emotional experiences, you know. The mere fact that hundreds of people use them proves it. People who are truly suffering don’t bother about looking for elegant new ways of expressing their feelings. "
― Elizabeth Fair , The Mingham Air
2 " If he hadn’t made her laugh she would have cried; and the relief of being able to dissolve into laughter was so great that she felt quite dizzy, as if after months of being shut up in one room she had suddenly emerged into wind and sunlight. "
3 " Maggie said tolerantly that it would do the parents good to be taken for a picnic. And she told herself, even more tolerantly, that it would do Hester good if she drove the car into a ditch. But this was just a private joke; for her common sense told her that it would do the precious car no good at all. "
4 " She recognized it as one of her “good” days; a day when nothing was too difficult, nothing could vex or depress her, when she felt at the top of her form and able to tackle anything. "
