Quotes From "The Lost Garden" By Helen Humphreys

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There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown. Helen Humphreys
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if...
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Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love. Helen Humphreys
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In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story.... There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind. Helen Humphreys
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I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told. Just as we were powerless to stop the fox stealing the chicken, so there seems to be an inevitability to all that takes place at Mosel. This is a ghost story. And we have somehow become the ghosts of these young men who worked this estate before the Great War. The living are the dead. Helen Humphreys