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“The way she used to sit by the brook on summer evenings and Sunday afternoons, a book in her lap, so caught up in the story that he could sit down next to her, even stroke her hair softly, without her noticing, a world within the world, a magical island in the shoreless sea of the everyday, a place he can never reach... [from The Remembered Soldier]” — Anjet Daanje
The way she used to sit by the brook on summer evenings and Sunday afternoons, a book in her lap, so caught up in the story that he could sit down next to her, even stroke her hair softly, without her noticing, a world within the world, a magical island in the shoreless sea of the everyday, a place he can never reach...
[from The Remembered Soldier]