Norah Lofts Quotes

#1. Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

Norah Lofts

#2. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.

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#3. Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.

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#4. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

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#5. Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner ...

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#6. He hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.

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#7. Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a bit of fungus on the surface of a splinter of a dying star.

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#8. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge

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#9. Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

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