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The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1) QUOTES

The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1) QUOTES

1 " It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

2 " I began to wonder, as spring wore on to summer in that my fifteenth year, if I would ever meet anyone who could look me in the eye, who could say sorry without making a joke of it, who could cry without embarrassment, have a row and still stay friends. As for mentioning the word 'love', well... it provoked sniggers, not much else. The hunger of it all ached inside me. Maybe Mother knew. Maybe she could guess what I never told her, could not even tell myself; that I was desperate for something more than smiles and jokes and surfaces; that I was beginning to wonder if it was possible to stretch out your hand in the darkness and find it grasped by another hand, not evaded, rejected, or ignored. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

3 " the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

4 " If she put them to bed and left them, there would be pandemonium. Cecily would not stay in bed at all and romped gaily about the room, and Beth and Mary would begin to argue, starting with a simple remark like ‘Beth, I can’t get to sleep with you sniffing,’ and finishing with a general commotion of crying and quarrelling. So Mother resigned herself to stay with them as they fell asleep, and she sat, with the littlest one snuggled on her lap, in the room dimly glowing with candle-light, softly astir with the breathing and sighing and turning over of children settling for the night. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)