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Child In Time quotes.
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- 1It was Kate'sbirthday, because it was early on a monday morning and raining steadily
- 2Three years late,that they began to cry together at last for the lost, irreplaceable child.
- 3To the incipientadult within the child, to the forgotten child within the adult
- 4For children,childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense.
- 5You're not all here,even as i'm talking to you now.
- 6Stephen was to make efforts to re-enter this moment,to burrow his way back through the folds between events, crawl between the covers, and reverse his decision.
- 7The sweet reek of unchanged clothes and methylated spiritswas strong in the frozen air. A thirty-foot ventilator grill had become a packed dormitory. Stephen walked it's length.
- 8As he walked around the bed,the feel of the warm boards under his feet brought to mind again the idea of home, and of barely imaginable pleasures.
- 9He was unable to speak,he was charged with more love than he thought he could bare.
- 10The loss of their only grandchild had whitened his father'shair in two months, and made his mother's eyes shrink into wrinkled pits.
- 11He had reached the end of a row of bodies and was looking downat a familiar face. It was hard, small boned, for a moment ageless... The dulled eyes were opened and stared past him...
- 12Stephen spread his coatover the girl and touched her hand.
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- A level English Flashcards on Child In Time quotes., created by Becky Walker on 30/05/2015.
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