Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions. : before and after, winner … - Kate Morton

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Kate Morton

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions. : before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

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Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

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Those who live in memories are never really dead. " The House At Riverton

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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

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In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

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