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Ruth is nothing if not eclectic in her tastes. She has a particular fondness for children’s books about ballet or horse-riding, neither of which she has ever tried.
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“There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.”
― A Murder of Magpies
― A Murder of Magpies
“A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity.”
― First & Then
― First & Then
“Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams.”
― Skating Shoes
― Skating Shoes
“I wonder’ – Petrova looked up - ‘If other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?”
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“There was some reason to call Pole heartless. His blood ran thinly in an effete body; no human emotion was urgent in him, neither love of family nor of country, and certainly not of women. But now he was forced to remember that his mother was also a woman, and to realize that her fate had lain at his door.”
― Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
― Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
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