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Author: Rumer Godden
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  1. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.
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  2. Rumer Godden _ Coromandel Sea Change

    None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.
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  3. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet.
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  4. Rumer Godden _ Black Narcissus

    I think there are only two ways to live in this place,' said Sister Philippa, 'you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.
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  5. Rumer Godden _ Black Narcissus

    I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.
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  6. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    Eliot always said, 'I'm sorry. I had to do that.' If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry."
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  7. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.
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  8. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
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  9. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
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  10. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.
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  11. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.
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  12. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.
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