Natasha Solomons Quotes

#1. They are filled with earnest nonsense, the sort of things that a boy writes to his sweetheart, but which somehow, when they are meant for you, never feel tired or cliched or anything other than absolutely tender and true.

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#2. I lay in his arms and I understood. I am two women and I love two men. Elise will always love Kit and Alice loves Daniel. This was not the life or the love I had expected but it was love all the same.

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#3. It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page.

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#4. Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.

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#5. I took a deep breath and filled my lungs with summer.

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#6. His skin felt so war, and I wondered that in all her lectures upon proper behaviour, Anna had failed to mention that behaving improperly was much more fun.

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#7. He liked the English and their peculiarities. He liked their stoicism under pressure; on the wall in his factory he kept a copy of a war poster emblazoned with the Crown of King George and underneath the words Keep Calm and Carry On.

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