Birdcage Walk

Helen Dunmore

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“Only a very few people leave traces in history, or even bequeath family documents to their descendants. Most have no money to memorialise themselves, and lack even a gravestone to mark their existence. Women's lives, in particular, remain largely unrecorded. But even so, did they not shape the future?”

“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any fate which did not touch us directly.”

“I did not know what breath meant until she died. It was everything that gave me quickness and life: it was thought, feeling, animation. Without it there was nothing.”

“Go back to your house then, and see what happiness you find there.’ ‘It has nothing to do with happiness.’ ‘It is true that marriage seems often to have little to do with happiness. But who am I to judge? I have never been married.”

“We are living through such times that those yet born will look back in wonder”

“These two would never understand each other. I was the only link between them and each of them tugged on it hard in the hope that the other would let go.”

“Ten times a day it stopped me like a bolt into my chest: that she was no longer here. That she would never be here. That I might walk and walk and yet I would never again come home to her.”

“Our houses are palaces to those who have none.”

“It does not matter what happens now. There is no world: it has fallen away from us.”

“I am not yet sure that I can live without her”

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