Chris Womersley Quotes

#1. It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

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#2. After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

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#3. His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke.

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#4. To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

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#5. When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.

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#6. We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

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#7. False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

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#8. Like a bizarre spider unaccustomed to its surfeit of appendages, four drunken soldiers lurched arm in arm down the passage.

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#9. Stories are rarely only stories

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#10. One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

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#11. A story is a wondrous invention.

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