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81 " nothing good comes from a death without a funeral. "
― Kate Morton , The Lake House
82 " Sadie murmured agreement. She didn’t add that in her experience, no matter how hard a person ran, no matter how fresh the start they gave themselves, the past had a way of reaching across the years to catch them. "
83 " She wondered sometimes how he stood the constant criticism. "Love," Mr. Llewellyn had said when she ventured as much to him. "We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could. "
84 " Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there werre worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. And a pulse, he added, the alternative to which was dire! He said a girl like Eleanor would do well to keep the coals of her impudence warm, for society would seek to cool them soon enough. "
85 " Her father had told her once that generations had walked these woods and been buried deep beneath the heavy earth. It made him glad, she knew, to think of it that way. He found comfort in the continuity of nature, believing that the stability of the long past had the power to alleviate present troubles. "
86 " And then he'd looked directly at her and briefly she'd seen something in his eyes, a shadow in the shape of Howard and all the others like him, and then it was gone, and he smiled and he was Anthony her Anthony, home again at last. "
87 " There were so many aspects of Eleanor her daughters didn’t know. She took them out sometimes, those hidden traits, and turned them over, inspecting and admiring from all sides, as if they were precious seed pearls. And then she wrapped them up again safely and tucked them away. She would never reveal them again because then she’d have to explain why she’d changed. Eleanor "
88 " In her relief, Eleanor had stood for a time in the darkened room, watching the faint undulations on the lake, silver-rimmed clouds being drawn across the pewter sky, nursing the uncanny sense of being the only person on earth awake. "
89 " ...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success. "
90 " Daffyd "
91 " Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. "
92 " babies in prams at the park. "
93 " Alice experienced one of her swift certainties then. She wasn’t sure where they came from, these insights into other people’s states of mind, only that they arrived unexpectedly and fully formed. She just knew things sometimes. To "
94 " It was just the same as spotting the scaffolding in other writers’ books. Awareness of construction didn’t diminish her pleasure, only added to it. "
95 " Sadie felt a swell of emotion. That was love right there, wasn't it? Someone in your life who cared that your next meal was coming to you. "
96 " Todos somos víctimas de nuestra experiencia, propensos a ver el presente a través de la lente de nuestro pasado. "
97 " sin embargo, amar era flotar en un pequeño bote de remos en un mar en calma. * "
98 " better dead. "
99 " the sun seeming to hesitate in the process of setting, as if it couldn’t bear to end the day. It was teetering on the horizon, throwing ribbons of pink and mauve across the sky like life ropes, and the air was sweet with jasmine. "
100 " A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood. "