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That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing ...more

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I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was wit...more

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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, hold...more

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What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really underst...more

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You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

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That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagin...more

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I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. ...more

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in f...more

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movemen...more

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But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive on...more