“Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?”
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Author detail
Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby. Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She currently lives in London.
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“Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?”
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“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”
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“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I...”
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“The dead do not harm us, only the alive.”
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“I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which...”
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“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”
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“I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.”
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“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.”
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“Death preserves an ideal.”
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“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”
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“They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them”
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“I can only strive for what is important”
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“Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.”
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