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Skirrid Hill

Book by Owen Sheers · 2 quotes · Death, Family, Friendship

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“And that's why he's come back again, to tip these ashes onto the tongue of the wind and watch them spindrift into the night. Not just to make the circle complete, to heal or mend but because he knows these walls, sunk however low, still hold him in as well as out: protect as much as they defend. -The Hill Fort”

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“A night-long easterly and a chestnut tree side-swiping the power lines has stilled the house to this: wells of darkness in the hallway, doors opening onto mine shafts of night and us, sitting by firelight, tipping heels of whisky against the flames and the dust. An evening of unfamiliar obstacles, rooms shrunken to the candle's halo, the world lessened. You speak from the shore of the other chair, saying all you really want is to live long enough to be good at the oboe and remembering a fly I saw that morning, vibrating across a window like a tatooist's needle towards the slip of space that was air not glass, I think I understand. That it is after all the small victories that matter, that are in the end, enough.”

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