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1 " If I’m still on my feet, then I’m meant to be living. I’ll not give up all of my pleasures. "
― Susanna Kearsley , The Shadowy Horses
2 " But till then, I could wait – I was in no great hurry. Like the swans, I had mated for life. "
3 " My mother, come to think of it, would have been a welcome sight jut now..."There are no such things as ghosts," she would have told me, and of course I would have believed her "
4 " It really was unfair how nature always gave the longest eyelashes to men. "
5 " Life moves on,” she said gently, “and ye cannae go back. You’ve only got one chance to get it right. "
6 " Looking at old photographs was like that. Magic. "
7 " Some things, I reasoned, simply ran in a person’s blood. "
8 " Silence in the face of nonsense, that’s what my father always said. "
9 " In my day? And what am I, a dinosaur? Which one of us is turning thirty-seven?” David shook his head. “Not till tomorrow. I’m a young man yet, the day. "
10 " Hollywood, I reasoned, rarely concerned itself with getting things right. "
11 " But at the moment, surrounded by strangers in a wild landscape, with the remnants of a long-dead civilization spread at my feet, such things as ghosts seemed possible. "
12 " but now that I’d had the fact pointed out to me I could recognize that indefinable quality, the faint hint of horses and hounds, that marked a certain segment of the Anglo-Irish gentry. "
13 " Once wakened, I could never quite drop off again, "
14 " My mother, come to think of it, would have been a welcome sight just now. "There are no such things as ghosts," she would have told me, and of course I would have believed her. "
15 " The male of the species, I thought with a sigh, could be so bloody maddening. "
16 " She hadn’t learned, as I had, that true archaeologists were not the swashbuckling heroes of Hollywood films, dashing madly round the world from danger zone to danger zone in search of priceless treasures. True archaeologists were scientists. "
17 " Archaeologists, I thought, were a breed apart. "
18 " Canadian J. Norman Emerson, publicly "