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141 " A garden, as far as Teddy could see, was nature tamed and constrained by artifice. "
― Kate Atkinson , A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
142 " Have you? Forgiven them? Had he? Theoretically perhaps, but not in his heart, where truth resided. "
143 " Her grandfather was dying of old age, Bertie thought. Worn out. Not cancer or a heart attack or an accident or a catastrophe. Old age seemed like a hard way to go. "
144 " Sometimes, when she found herself mired in the twin duties of marriage and motherhood, she thought how her life had been compromised by love. "
145 " puddings, "
146 " Вона підвела погляд від клавіш, коли він зайшов до кімнати, і здивувалася, мовби забула про його існування - у неї бував такий загадковий вираз обличчя, ніби вона заблукала всередині свого життя. "
147 " У світі є божественна іскра - не Бог, у Бога ми вже награлися, але ж є ЩОСЬ. Може, це любов? Не дурна романтична любов, а щось глибше?.. "
148 " Was I really such a terrible mother?’ she asked Bertie. ‘Why the past tense?’ Bertie said. Sow and reap. "
149 " Viola had resented other people’s pleasure, as if it subtracted something from the world rather than adding to it. "
150 " he said that when the baby was born, if it was a boy, I was to call it Edward.”“Edward?” Teddy repeated blankly.“After you.”And for the first time in the whole of the war Teddy broke. "
151 " Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion. "
152 " Kibbo Kift were their natural heirs, "
153 " man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Nature "
154 " Surprise?” she said when she eventually tracked him down. “It is,” he said. They had hugged warily, as if one of them might have a knife. "
155 " A whole life could be contained in a dinner-service pattern "