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The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.
Elizabeth Noble -
Please don't carry my love for you with you forever. but don't let that be all. our capacity to love is vast - all of us. my daughters taught me that. there is room.
Elizabeth Noble
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The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.
Elizabeth Noble -
I want to live. simple as that. we all do, don't we?
Elizabeth Noble -
Mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people.
Elizabeth Noble -
But i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact.
Elizabeth Noble -
You're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.
Elizabeth Noble -
I can't believe you came all this way, No one ever did anything like that for me before.' His eyes bored into her. 'No one ever loved you the way i love you, Susie.
Elizabeth Noble
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Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world.
Elizabeth Noble -
The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.
Elizabeth Noble -
Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.
Elizabeth Noble -
Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that?
Elizabeth Noble -
She was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect and that's okay.
Elizabeth Noble -
And even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to.
Elizabeth Noble