Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
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For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.
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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
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You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
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Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.
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Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
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I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.
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It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
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The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the intricacies of the smaller memories), and, most of all, the fearful absence of anything that could begin to take their place, had worn him down.
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Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?
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When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.