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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
Best to avoid morbid thoughts", Ursula counselled, advice that would stand him in good stead for the next three years. For the rest of his life, in fact.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
She wanted to be left alone in peace, to disappear into her own quiet world and meditate upon death. Death. Yes, she could form that blunt, obscene word too. But instead she was the one who was going to have to be kind and strong and say that everything was going to be all right {which it clearly was not} and that she had "come to terms with it.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
He loved his wife and daughter. It was perhaps a stalwart affection rather than a magnificent obsession, but nonetheless he didn't doubt that if called upon to do so he would sacrifice his own life in a heartbeat for them. And he also knew that there would be no more hankering for something else, something beyond, for the hot slices of colour or the intensity of war or romance. That was all behind him, he had a different kind of duty now, not to himself, not to his country, but to this small knot of a family.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails with a carving knife. A horrid image. Poor mice, he had thought when he was a boy. Still thought the same now that he was a man. Nursery rhymes were brutal affairs.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
About the Book He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't true--the last thing she wanted was people finding her.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
I really such a terrible mother?' she asked Bertie. 'Why the past tense?' Bertie said. Sow
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
They were both Filipino and laughed no matter what you said. Were the Philippines really such a happy place or were the carers just happy not to be there?
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
What a good husband you are," Nancy said afterward, "always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's." "It's the side of reason I am on," Teddy said. "It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.
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Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins
pointing. She was completely hopeless.
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