73 Quotes by Jeanne Birdsall

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    Lydia stopped dancing – struck, paralyzed by a sensation of no longer being here, this night, now. A feeling that she was instead living inside a memory, of a precious place and time, one lost and greatly mourned. As strange as this was, Lydia knew what was happening to her. It could be nothing else: Already she was homesick for Arundel, and could hardly bear it.

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    Penderwick took off his glasses and cleaned them on his sleeve.

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    Is this his eye or his tooth?” asked Aunt Claire, waving around another puzzle piece.

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    She sat down again. “Oh, Dominic, love has no measure.” “What?” “I mean, yes, please kiss me.

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    If there could be anything worse than having a parent die, it would be having a parent who never bothered to meet you.

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    It was the kind of delicious chilliness, though, that was good for thinking about how winter wasn’t far away, and snow, and Christmas.

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    This is truly a sad comedown for a man and a Geiger. Please say you’ll talk some sense into him.

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