43 Quotes by Jackie French

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    I don’t read like other people do – back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

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    I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

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    Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

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    I’ve always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

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    When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn’t see her again.

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    If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

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    The song and dance didn’t stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

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    I don’t finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don’t feel it’s my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.

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    Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

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