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The Railwayman's Wife QUOTES

The Railwayman's Wife QUOTES

1 " ---Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before. "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife

2 " Such fascinating things, libraries. She closes her eyes. She could
walk inside and step into a murder, a love story, a complete account
of somebody else’s life, or mutiny on the high seas. Such potential;
such adventure—there’s a shimmer of malfeasance in trying other
ways of being. "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife

3 " There’s some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that’s harder. "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife

4 " How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line—how would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined—well, a good poem. "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife

5 " That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else’s image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end? "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife

6 " The oceans and the skies…and the sun coming up each new day. That’s all there is, I think. That’s all that matters to think on. "

― Ashley Hay , The Railwayman's Wife