Alexandra Ripley - Scarlett (1991)

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But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

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It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

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Everyone knew that once a woman was thirty, she might as well be dead.

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One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

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And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

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Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

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To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for

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