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'Her heart - is given him, with all it's love and truth. she would joyfully die with him, or better than that die for him. She knows...

In amongst all that angst there was the hope of this.... 'But some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and neve...

I've joined a new book club, friends from printmaking invited me. Tonight we're discussing The Glass Room by Simon Mawer This is my ...

Four years ago today Warmth and I had our first date... 'In the weeks that followed, Molly walked into another life. There was then, and...

A while ago we had a week of not used wedding passages. I decided on a winter week as we had a summer wedding - but oh how lovely to have a ...

Somehow I discovered that over here is a readalong to The Princess Bride. We had one of my favourite quotes when honeymoon recapping and he...

Warmth bought me Christopher Reid's A Scattering for my birthday, it's a collection of poems he wrote after his wife died. Here'...

I've chosen this quote for today as it links to Friday's quote about believing and hopefully the scars do heal... 'One day you f...

Warmth wanted to read a new book. He wanted suggestions. I suggested Suite Francaise. He loved it. It's brought back my memories. He cri...

One day I shall read this novel. One day when I go on a very long holiday. Until then here's a snippet that was read at a friend's w...

I've just finished reading Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman. It fits in quite well with all the Mad Men we've been watching as it...

All the rain we had last week made me search out a rain quote.... 'These moments of silent meditation took away all his cares, made up f...

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long At this moment to be older, or younger or born In any other nation, or any othe...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and and breadth and height My soul can reach.... I love thee to the leve...

Saturday's Carol Ann Duffy poem prompted me to seek out this poem by U.A. Fanthorpe. It's about a couple who've been together fo...

'Whatever happens,' she says, 'please make us fonder and fonder of each other - forever and ever.' Does that sound mistrustf...

'It would always be like this now. Secure. Never again that feeling of solitude in a crowd that made one sometimes begin to think furtiv...

So along at The B Files and Paperback Reader a Persephone Reading Week has been organised. The book I've chosen is Lady Rose and Mrs Me...

So the last day of April and our last Enchanted April quote. 'It had been funny and delightful, that little interlude of admiration... ...

'In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.' Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom It's short and sweet but I fel...