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“When you’re sad, Little Star, go out of doors. It’s always better underneath the open sky.”
― A Countess Below Stairs
― A Countess Below Stairs
“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”
― A Company of Swans
― A Company of Swans
“Those who think of the Amazon as a Green Hell,” she read in an old book with a tattered spine, “bring only their own fears and prejudices to this amazing land. For whether a place is a hell or a heaven rests in yourself, and those who go with courage and an open mind may find themselves in Paradise.”
― Journey to the River Sea
― Journey to the River Sea
“The weather. It’s like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything’s a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It’s all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.” “You could just say it’s cold out.” “I could.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a gigantic subterranean wardrobe”
― The Reluctant Heiress
― The Reluctant Heiress
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