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Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from, and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life for herself. But when sudden tragedy changes the course of that life for ever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again, searching . . .… (meer)
Best moeilijk telezen, doordat het verhaal in drie gedeeltes is opgebouwd. de hoofdpersoon, Rebecca, is door haar moeder te vondeling gelegd. hierdoor heeftvze veel vragen, waarvgeen antwoord op komt. Vervolgens woonde ze samen met een schrijver, Joe, die zielsveel van haar hield, ze hadden geen liefdesrelatie. na haar huwelijk krijgt ze een echt gezin, echtervhaar dochtertje Ruby verongelukt wanner ze vijf jaar is. Hierna gaat ze alleen verder. Uiteindelijk lijkt haarvman haar weer op te zoeken. ( )
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We're on the coast road from Zennor to St Just.
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She understood that she had no rights in the future of a baby she was about to give away. She wanted me to start with a clean sheet.
I mistrust sensitive people. In my experience what they are chiefly sensitive to is themselves.
In my view friendship can be rarer and tenderer than love.
When people say you remind them of someone it means that you remind them of themselves, of their own life, of their own concerns. You are a mirror, that's all.
The circus had taught me the most important trick it possesses: to discover what people want, before they know it themselves, and before anyone else knows it. To discover it first, and act on it. It sounds very simple, doesn't it? You wonder why everyone doesn't find it out.
You can't free yourself from the past. The past is what you are. [paraphrasing slightly]
The most important thing parents have to do is to make their children believe that life is good. Or if they can't manage that, at least make them believe that life is bearable. That there are ways to bear it and that they will help the children to find them.
Here I am sitting in a pool of electric light, with my iBook burning blue. I'm drinking whiskey and I'm about to start writing again. I'm in the territory of bears. They are all around me, even if I can't yet see them. I can sense them, smell them. I'm an indoor man by nature, and words are the kind of bears I hunt.
The fact that the relationship between you didn't continue doesn't invalidate it- that would be like saying that love isn't real unless it lasts forever.
For most of my life it felt improbable to me that I had a father at all. I don't remember him any more than you remember your mother. I'd love to have known him. Sometimes I get a sensation in my head, in my moth almost, like a taste or a smell. I nearly remember him, but then I don't. I try not to reach after it too much. The thread that links us is so slender that I'm afraid it'll snap if I strain it too far. it drives me crazy. Maybe there's a sensation like that in your head. All those months inside your mother's body, those hours when she was yours and no one else's, and you were hers. The fact that the relationship between you didn't continue doesn't invalidate it- that would be like saying that love isn't real unless it lasts forever.
A field is enough to spend a life in. Harrow, granite and mattress springs, shards and bones, turquoise droppings from pigeons that gorge on nightshade berries, a charm of goldfinch, a flight of linnets, fieldfare and January redwing venturing westward in the dusk, all are folded in the dark of the field, all are folded into the dark of the field and need more days to paint them, than life gives.
Someone asked Mandelstam what poetry was like, and he said that it was like an aeroplane flying along which gives birth to a baby aeroplane which immediately begins to fly with its full strength and its own life, and gives birth to its own baby aeroplane. All this happens without any of the aeroplanes missing a beat. All this happens within one poem. Mandelstam's baby aeroplanes never nuzzle and butt around their mothers' bellies. Immediately they are born and they fly off, with their own life.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from, and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life for herself. But when sudden tragedy changes the course of that life for ever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again, searching . . .
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