It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, fo… - Alexandra Ripley
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, fo…
- Alexandra Ripley
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. - Alexandra Ripley
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've go… - Alexandra Ripley
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've go…
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around… - Alexandra Ripley
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around…
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart. - Alexandra Ripley
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. - Alexandra Ripley
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the … - Alexandra Ripley
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the …
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little. - Alexandra Ripley
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath? - Alexandra Ripley
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
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