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1 " We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can. "
― Rose Tremain , Islands of Mercy
2 " For it did seem to be the case, she reflected, that the owners of art galleries were very frequently men who were unable to use ordinary language with any precision and who walked about in a horrible blizzard of peculiar superlatives and meaningless coinages from which they tried to shelter themselves by a wild flailing of their hands. "
3 " She thought how, here and there in the world, often hidden away in some alley or winding street which few people ever trod, there were small yet wonderful oases of human dedication and kindness of spirit. This gladdened her particularly because she had seen it and not let it pass her by. "
4 " Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart. "
