For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
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The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.Rumer Godden
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It is My own peace I give unto you. Not, notice, the world's peace.
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Pax peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. . .
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The stitch of a book is its words.
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