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“To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean.”
― Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog

“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”
― Roald Dahl

“Would there be trees if we didn't see them?”
― Virginia Woolf, The Years