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Pip Williams Quote: “There was one letter for every week I had been away. I took them all from the box and removed the pages. There was nothing of me in any of them. How could Da have believed them? When I returned the envelopes to the box, they were empty of words – but never more meaningful.”

51. “There was one letter for every week I had been away. I took them all from the box and removed the pages. There was nothing of me in any of them. How could Da have believed them? When I returned the envelopes to the box, they were empty of words – but never more meaningful.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Another idea began to form. “Do you think there are some words that only women use, or that apply to women specifically?”

52. “Another idea began to form. “Do you think there are some words that only women use, or that apply to women specifically?”

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Pip Williams Quote: “When Dr. Johnson undertook to compile his dictionary, he resolved to leave no word unexamined. This resolve was soon eroded when he realized that one inquiry only gave occasion to another, that book referred to book, that to scratch was not always to find, and to find was not always to be informed.”

53. “When Dr. Johnson undertook to compile his dictionary, he resolved to leave no word unexamined. This resolve was soon eroded when he realized that one inquiry only gave occasion to another, that book referred to book, that to scratch was not always to find, and to find was not always to be informed.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “So you and Dr Murray could make the words mean whatever you want them to mean, and we’ll all have to use them that way forever?”

54. “So you and Dr Murray could make the words mean whatever you want them to mean, and we’ll all have to use them that way forever?”

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Pip Williams Quote: “I watched him like a stranger might. There was something unfamiliar about him. His face was more intent than I’d ever seen it and his body surer. It struck me that we are never fully at ease when we are aware of another’s gaze. Perhaps we are never fully ourselves. In the desire to please or impress, to persuade or dominate, our movements become conscious, our features set.”

55. “I watched him like a stranger might. There was something unfamiliar about him. His face was more intent than I’d ever seen it and his body surer. It struck me that we are never fully at ease when we are aware of another’s gaze. Perhaps we are never fully ourselves. In the desire to please or impress, to persuade or dominate, our movements become conscious, our features set.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “God is in this place,” she said, without shifting her gaze from Wenlock Edge. “Do you think so, Lizzie?” “Oh, yes. I feel him more here than I ever have in church. Out here it’s like we’re stripped of all our clothes, of the callouses on our hands that tell our place, of our accents and words. He cares for none of it. All that matters is who you are in your heart. I’ve never loved him as much as I should, but here I do.” “Why is that?” I asked. “I reckon it’s the first time he’s noticed me.”

56. “God is in this place,” she said, without shifting her gaze from Wenlock Edge. “Do you think so, Lizzie?” “Oh, yes. I feel him more here than I ever have in church. Out here it’s like we’re stripped of all our clothes, of the callouses on our hands that tell our place, of our accents and words. He cares for none of it. All that matters is who you are in your heart. I’ve never loved him as much as I should, but here I do.” “Why is that?” I asked. “I reckon it’s the first time he’s noticed me.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Beth will vouch for the walking: it is superb, with many steep paths to test the heart and distract the mind. It is just what Esme needs.”

57. “Beth will vouch for the walking: it is superb, with many steep paths to test the heart and distract the mind. It is just what Esme needs.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.”

58. “If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “My misdemeanors may not have been forgotten, but at least my usefulness was being noticed.”

59. “My misdemeanors may not have been forgotten, but at least my usefulness was being noticed.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Like a vessel, I filled with sadness until I could no longer hold it, and it spilled, soaking.”

60. “Like a vessel, I filled with sadness until I could no longer hold it, and it spilled, soaking.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “It judged me, that crucifix, and I hated it. I imagined it twisting my words and whispering its translation in her ear.”

61. “It judged me, that crucifix, and I hated it. I imagined it twisting my words and whispering its translation in her ear.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Some people feel better about themselves if they can pull others down a bit.”

62. “Some people feel better about themselves if they can pull others down a bit.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Sarah sat on the bed, her large, freckled hand storking the golden down on our baby’s had. ‘You can change your mind.’ I’d tried to imagine it a hundred different ways. ‘It’s not just my mind that would need to change,’ I said.”

63. “Sarah sat on the bed, her large, freckled hand storking the golden down on our baby’s had. ‘You can change your mind.’ I’d tried to imagine it a hundred different ways. ‘It’s not just my mind that would need to change,’ I said.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “How is your dictionary progressing, Esme?” “We’re up to S.” “Good God, really? How can you stand going so slow?”

64. “How is your dictionary progressing, Esme?” “We’re up to S.” “Good God, really? How can you stand going so slow?”

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Pip Williams Quote: “The words used to describe us define our value to society and determine our capacity to contribute. They also’ – and again she poked at the translations – ’tell others how to feel about us, how to judge us.”

65. “The words used to describe us define our value to society and determine our capacity to contribute. They also’ – and again she poked at the translations – ’tell others how to feel about us, how to judge us.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “It’s not his place to forgive you, Essymay,” She whispered into my ear. “It’s no one’s but yours.”

66. “It’s not his place to forgive you, Essymay,” She whispered into my ear. “It’s no one’s but yours.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Without her in it, Lizzie’s room felt unfamiliar – as if it might not belong to her.”

67. “Without her in it, Lizzie’s room felt unfamiliar – as if it might not belong to her.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “What is worse than tedious?’ ‘Dishonest.’ Lotte looked at me, her head tilted. She smiled. ‘Dishonest. Yes. Manners are often that.”

68. “What is worse than tedious?’ ‘Dishonest.’ Lotte looked at me, her head tilted. She smiled. ‘Dishonest. Yes. Manners are often that.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “It was not my place to erase what war meant to Phyllis Campbell; what it was to those Belgian women. Among the propaganda of glory, and the men’s experiences of the trenches and death, something needed to be known of what happened to women.”

69. “It was not my place to erase what war meant to Phyllis Campbell; what it was to those Belgian women. Among the propaganda of glory, and the men’s experiences of the trenches and death, something needed to be known of what happened to women.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “All of them were more or less the same, and none of them referred to a shed in the back garden of a house in Oxford. A scriptorium, the slips told me, was a writing room in a monastery.”

70. “All of them were more or less the same, and none of them referred to a shed in the back garden of a house in Oxford. A scriptorium, the slips told me, was a writing room in a monastery.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “How reassuring it must be to know how you should act: like having a definition of yourself written clearly in black type.”

71. “How reassuring it must be to know how you should act: like having a definition of yourself written clearly in black type.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Hats? Why would I talk about hats?’ ‘Women like to talk about hats.’ ‘Do they?’ ‘The fact you don’t know that is what will make me fall in love with you.’ Suddenly, every word I ever knew evaporated.”

72. “Hats? Why would I talk about hats?’ ‘Women like to talk about hats.’ ‘Do they?’ ‘The fact you don’t know that is what will make me fall in love with you.’ Suddenly, every word I ever knew evaporated.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “It was the printing room, and it was, indeed, noisy. But there were rhythms on top of rhythms, and trying to separate them settled my panic.”

73. “It was the printing room, and it was, indeed, noisy. But there were rhythms on top of rhythms, and trying to separate them settled my panic.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “As Beth says, her constant enquiring kept us honest. One might have expected her to grow out of it, and there were times, I must confess, when I wished she would just accept the wisdom of others. But she requires convincing, and I am sure my History will be the better for it.”

74. “As Beth says, her constant enquiring kept us honest. One might have expected her to grow out of it, and there were times, I must confess, when I wished she would just accept the wisdom of others. But she requires convincing, and I am sure my History will be the better for it.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “Your mother would have had the words to explain the world to you, Essy,” Da said. “But without her, we must rely on the Scrippy.”

75. “Your mother would have had the words to explain the world to you, Essy,” Da said. “But without her, we must rely on the Scrippy.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “When she finally let the crucifix rest, she was smiling. “You’ve always said that a word can change its meaning depending on who uses it. So maybe bondmaid can mean something more than what those slips say. I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of it.”

76. “When she finally let the crucifix rest, she was smiling. “You’ve always said that a word can change its meaning depending on who uses it. So maybe bondmaid can mean something more than what those slips say. I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of it.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “We’re designed to enjoy it,” Tilda had said. “Not avoid it or endure it. Enjoy it, just like them.”

77. “We’re designed to enjoy it,” Tilda had said. “Not avoid it or endure it. Enjoy it, just like them.”

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Pip Williams Quote: “She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did.”

78. “She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did.”

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