But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.
Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.
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Jacqueline Winspear
They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.
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Bilal
The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
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Sarah Addison Allen
She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.
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Thomm Quackenbush
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I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
I am of the opinion", Tharkay said, "that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.
