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Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
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The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.
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Has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?
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Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
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Siobhan Dowd
Born:
February 4, 1960
Died:
August 21, 2007
(aged 47)
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Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, Bog Child posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for children or young adults published in the UK
Known for:
The London Eye Mystery (2007)
Bog Child
A Swift Pure Cry (2006)
Solace of the Road
The Ransom of Dond
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