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Consequences QUOTES

Consequences QUOTES

1 " If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

2 " I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

3 " And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

4 " They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time. By the end of the day, both realised that their lives had altered course. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

5 " He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

6 " Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

7 " Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him. "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences

8 " It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be? "

― Penelope Lively , Consequences