Found in Sergeant Musgraves Dance – John Arden

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Found in Readers Digest Condensed Books

Found in The Tiger and the Horse by Robert Bolt

“When a man takes an oath Meg, he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t hope to find himself again”

Found in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath

“wear your heart on your skin in this life”

Found in a bio of Plastic People of the Universe

Found in The Cave by Robert Penn Warren

Found in Waterland by Graham Swift

‘And don’t forget,’ my father would say, as if he expected me at any moment to up and leave to seek my fortune in the wide world, ‘whatever you learn about people, however bad they turn out, each one of them has a heart, and each of them was once a tiny baby sucking his mother’s milk…’

Found in John Adams by David McCullough

“Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, “Thomas Jefferson survives”.”

Found in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

“Some days at home in late August are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…”