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Lorraine
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“A novel?” I said. “How do you write a novel?” Gladys advised me to return to the wellspring. “The world is a very old place, and you’re never going to tell a completely original story,” she said. “The reason the archetypal stories have
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“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined optimism on everybody's part rather than the truth. After all, if a girl is a princess, she is undeniably a princess, and the best must be made of it; and how much pleasanter it would be if she were good and beautiful. There's always hope that if enough people believe as though she is, a little of it will rub off.”
― The Door in the Hedge
― The Door in the Hedge
“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
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Lorraine’s 2025 Year in Books
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