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“Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a renowned British author known for her distinctive literary style and profound social commentary. Her works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and poetry. Winterson's novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a story about growth, faith, and sexuality that has received widespread acclaim. more

“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.”

Men Want Giving Trying Looks Ideas Next Bits Walks Half Sea Fields Six Hundred Window Size Miles No Idea Thirty Fifty Far Away Heels Yards High Heels Giving Directions

Author:Marian Keyes

“I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.”

People Looks Sometimes Asks Steps Shoes Confusion Flats

Book:The Other Side of the Story

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.”

I Can Different Done Choices Meetings Nails Staff Wraps Impatience Drumming

Book:The Other Side of the Story

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.”

Littles Order Games Interest Tree Flower Treats Insult Boss Fulfilled Hello Insulted Greetings Fleeing Treadmills Dublin Describe Me

Author:Marian Keyes

“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.”

People Made Imagination Size Rustic

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.”

Way Maturity Peculiar Recognizing Admitting

Book:The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land

Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo”

Ifs Fool Casts Foolishness Monte Cristo

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”

Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

“So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.”

Matter Law Father Secret Too Much Kings Protect Weak No Matter What Innocent Swear Vow Bidding Song Of Ice And Fire Clash Of Kings

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.”

Looks Has Beens Moments Wanted Pleasure Share Solitude Hills Unexpected Paradox Imperfect Rail Deck Elbows Cork

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

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