Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Thomas Hardy About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It was titillating to believe they must have brushed past each other at one of those famous, youthful city events, at St Giles' Fair in the first week of September, or May Morning at dawn on the first of teh month – a ridiculous and overrated ritual, they both agreed or while renting a punt at the Cherwell Boat House – though Edward had only ever done it once or, later in their teens, during illicit drinking at the Turl.” And in the first rush of love, they often wondered at how nearly their paths had crossed during their early teens, when Edward descended occasionally from the remoteness of his squalid family home in the Chiltern Hills to visit Oxford. What a terrifying possibility, that it might never have happened at all. “How did they meet, and why were these lovers in a modern age so timid and innocent? They regarded themselves as too sophisticated to believe in destiny, but still, it remained a paradoxto them that so momentous a meeting should have been accidental, so dependent on a hundred minor events and choices.
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