“I like being here, just now, just at this moment. This is one of the times I wouldn’t mind stopping at, for ever, or for longer, anyway if you could kind of freeze yourself. But you can’t. It’s like being on a train, and seeing a lovely quiet country station with flowers and cows in long grass, and not being able to get off at it (Lively 90).”
Lively, Penelope. The House in Norham Gardens. London: Jane Nissen Books, 2004. (Originally published in 1974)
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