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A.S. Byatt
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born
in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
August 24, 1936
gender
female
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influences
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Possession
— published 1990 — 74 editions |
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The Children's Book
— published 2009 — 36 editions |
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Angels and Insects
— published 1992 — 31 editions |
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
— published 1994 — 15 editions |
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The Virgin in the Garden
— published 1978 — 18 editions |
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Babel Tower
— published 1996 — 19 editions |
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Still Life
— published 1985 — 14 editions |
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Little Black Book of Stories
— published 2003 — 11 editions |
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The Matisse Stories
— published 1991 — 23 editions |
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Ragnarok
— published 2011 — 26 editions |
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“What is it my dear?"
Ah, how can we bear it?"
Bear what?"
This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?"
We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world."
And every day we shall have less. And then none."
Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?"
No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
Ah, how can we bear it?"
Bear what?"
This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?"
We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world."
And every day we shall have less. And then none."
Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?"
No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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