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People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.
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Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
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I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.
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To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.
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In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest they don't lie.
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Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
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I love what I call re-imagining, where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.
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Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
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In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.
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