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  1. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her."
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  2. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.
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  3. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. {Page 194.}"
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  4. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.
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  5. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
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  6. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
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  7. Joanne Harris _ Five Quarters of the Orange

    I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
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