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21 " [Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action. "
― Rosamunde Pilcher , The Shell Seekers
22 " Oh well. Better out than in, "
23 " Nothing’s worth anything unless somebody wants it. "
24 " What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily."(Quoted from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim) "
25 " And all at once it was as it had been before, on that gusty August day during the war, and she was twenty-three years old again, with holes in her sneakers, and Papa sitting beside her. And Richard walked in; into the gallery and into their lives. And Papa told him, "They will come...to paint the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind." And that was how it had all begun. "
26 " disaster relayed is often more frightening than the horror itself "
27 " It was going to be all right. There were to be no histrionics. For this deliverance Olivia was deeply grateful, but she felt sad too, because it is always sad when someone you have known as a child finally grows up, and you know that they will never be truly young again. "
28 " Yes, she was lovely. But more than that, she was warm and funny and loving. Hot-tempered one moment, and laughing the next. And she could make a home anywhere. She carried a sort of security about with her. I can't think of a single person who didn't love her. I still think about her every day of my life. Sometimes she seems very dead. And other times, I can't believe that she isn't somewhere in the house and that a door won't open and she'll be there. "
29 " the sound of her laughter brought back, with a piercing clarity, ringing across the years, the memory of other laughter, and the unexpected ecstasies and physical joys that happen, perhaps, only once in any person’s lifetime. "
30 " The past is another country, but the journey could be made. "
31 " It occurred to her then that people went on living until somebody told you they were dead. Perhaps it was a pity that anybody ever told anybody anything. "
32 " And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. "
33 " Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future. "
34 " Crusty brown bread, butter, and a pot of pâté de foie gras; chicken Kiev, and the makings of a salad. Olive oil, fresh peaches, cheeses; a bottle of Scotch, a couple of bottles of wine. She bought flowers, an armful of daffodils, "
35 " It was good. And nothing good is ever lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of one’s character. "
36 " Llegó septiembre y me despiertoY pienso con alegría que, ahora o en el futuro, sea cual sea el sistemaNo puede eliminarA la gente, siempre habrá gente paraSer amigos o amantes aunque tal vezLas condiciones del amor cambien y sus defectos disminuyanY el cariño sea rebajadoa limitada posesividad, celos fundados o vanidad.Llegó septiembre, es de ella,Cuya vitalidad aumenta en otoño,Cuya naturaleza prefiereÁrboles sin hojas y un fuego en el hogar,De modo que le entrego este mes y el próximoAunque todo mi año será de ella quien ya ha hechoque muchos de esos días fueran intolerables o confusosPero que muchos más fueran felices;Quien ha dejado un perfume en mi vida y a mis murosDanzando una y otra vez con su sombra;Cuyo cabello está enredado en todas mis cascadasY todo Londres sucio de recordados besos. "
37 " black-and-white, so it was no "
38 " the memory of other laughter, and the unexpected ecstasies and physical joys that happen, perhaps, only once in any person’s lifetime. It was good. And nothing good is ever "
39 " lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of one’s character. Other "