Eva Rice Quotes

#1. There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?

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#2. Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.

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#3. If I could take people out of their heads for a little while, if I could give them a dose of fantasy, that was all that mattered. You can't put a price on escape.

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#4. As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.

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#5. Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

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#6. Would it ever, ever leave? I had become used to the ache now; it was with me all the time, and never seemed to lessen. Time was no healer, I decided, but it was a great accommodator.

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#7. I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

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#8. Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties realizing that she knew everything.

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#9. But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

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