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“The mind is a fathomless mystery.”
“The past is what you take with you.”
“Popular versus literarya false divide?”
“Popular versus literary—a false divide?”
“They were lucky. They'd been given history.”
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality ...”
“Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.”
“he inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the b...”
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorl...”
“The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left it to Teddy, and so it had zigzagged its way down the family tree......The clo...”
“Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)”
“Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.”
“She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound...”
“Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her hea...”
“Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there w...”
“It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.”
“Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.”
“But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.”
“Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.”
“She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.”
“I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula ...”
“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.”
“Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said.”
