'After Molly's birth, Lorna lay on her side and gazed at the baby, and Molly stared back with wide-open eyes and the strange unearthly look of the newborn, as though, Lorna thought, she had just arrived from some mysterious place. But when Lorna got out of bed and crept over to the chest to get a glass of water she glanced at herself in the mirror and saw that she too had that look, she was not the person that she had been yesterday, she had changed her skin.' Penelope Lively Consequences
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You pick such beautiful quotes. This is yet another.
ReplyDeleteSiobhan - Thank you. It's a really wonderful book.
DeleteLovely quote. So appropriate!
ReplyDeleteSunday - Strangrly it's a quote I'd found a long time before even thinking of pregnancy.
DeleteA beautiful way to describe baby and mother! There is something magical about it all.
ReplyDeleteAnbolyn - Penelope Lively has such a wonderful way with words & emotions.
DeleteI've been so behind with my blog reading, and have only just caught up on your news! Congratulations, such exciting news for you both. I look forward to hearing your baby news.
ReplyDeleteLilac - Thank you, as the weeks tick by it gets more & more exciting.
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