"It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe."

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Source : "A Song for Summer".

Eva Ibbotson

#Summer Quotes #Flower Quotes #Air Quotes

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced â€“ even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
“Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.”
“All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.”
“I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.”

Source : "Family secrets" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
“I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA
“The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.”

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