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But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.
("Hair")

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.