My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

Penelope Lively

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A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery

Penelope Lively

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I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.

Penelope Lively


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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.

Penelope Lively


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They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time. By the end of the day, both realised that their lives had altered course.

Penelope Lively


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Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

Penelope Lively


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Matt only knew that he was entirely happy, wholly in love, and that years of this rolled ahead, waiting for him.

Penelope Lively


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It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be?

Penelope Lively


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He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.

Penelope Lively


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And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

Penelope Lively


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