Quotes from The Soldier's Wife

“But life doesn't wait - it trickles between your fingers, trickles away....”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife

“I learned in that moment that there are different darknesses. That there is ordinary darkness, like the night in the countryside, where, even on a night with no moon, as you stare things loom, take form; and there is another darkness, a darkness so profound you cannot begin to imagine it, cannot conjure it up in your mind. A darkness that blots out all you remember or hope for. A darkness that teaches that all that consoles you is false.”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife

“Going home to Millie; and the little boy who I know will rush into my arms when I get there; whose grey eyes will shine when he looks at me, who will smile with Gunther's smile.”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife

“Sometimes I feel as though the real things are passing me by. As though I've been pushed to the margins of life.”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife

“restharrow, a creeping plant with pink petals that grows everywhere”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife

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