Quotes by Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection

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As I said before, I took to miniature painting without a completely whole heart, on the advice of my elders and betters. — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, n — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young. — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
My mother was the perfect Spartan mother. I have always been able to imagine her telling her sons to return from battle — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads were lower down — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
Jean and I had, as I think a great many best friends have, a secret make-believe world of our own. We had only to say, ' — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
But against sandfly fever one could be inoculated, and I have another, hideously vivid picture of a great menacing brute — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt. — Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection