Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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• Friends
• Death
• Friend
• Dark
• Childhood
• Walking
• Sky
• Driving
• Dearth
• Charles Dickens

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• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

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• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  

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• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

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• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Death