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Rachel Walkley

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Born in the Midlands, I grew up in East Anglia and am now firmly lodged in the North West of England. My first writing achievement was my Brownie badge and after that I've never let go of the dream of becoming of an author. Once a librarian and caretaker of books, I'm now a teller of tales and want to share with you the secrets that hide in the pages of my books.

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Rachel Walkley We often feel constrained by time or a place, sometimes both. If you had to make a decision to live somewhere that offers you few comforts would you…moreWe often feel constrained by time or a place, sometimes both. If you had to make a decision to live somewhere that offers you few comforts would you do it for money, for your career, or maybe love? It's great start for a mystery and plenty of secrets. Once I'd thought of where to base the book, everything else flowed from there.(less)
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Me and my flute

(I originally posted this on my Quietwriter blog four years ago).


I played in a concert last night. No, concert isn’t the right word. Far too grand. A small performance to an even smaller audience. Did it matter? Not really. I enjoyed the coming together with my fellow musicians and hearing all our hard work successfully performed.


Audience size doesn’t matter, one person, a thousand, the true jo...

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Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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Sarah Addison Allen
“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
tags: chocolate, desire, expectation, hunger, ice-cream, magic
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Deb Caletti
“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”
― Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
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Forrest Curran
“Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another’s is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone’s life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.”
― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
tags: inspirational, motivational, peace, philosophy, spiritual, wisdom, zen
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