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“It had seemed then that her daughter's absence had flooded Eleonor, flooded them both, and that with their words they were trying to bail themselves out. But their words were eggcups, and what they were describing was an ocean of absence too vast to be contained in such modest vessels.” — Diane Setterfield
It had seemed then that her daughter's absence had flooded Eleonor, flooded them both, and that with their words they were trying to bail themselves out. But their words were eggcups, and what they were describing was an ocean of absence too vast to be contained in such modest vessels.