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“If you were hurt by any of this, Abby, I couldn’t bear it,” he told her.

My only choice, if I wish to keep him alive, if I wish to keep him safe as I promised his wife, is to lie. The promise I made her, so fleeting and casual, has in the past few hours taken on the strength of an oath in my mind, unbreakable. I swore to a woman who is now dead that I would look after her husband, ‘keep him safe’, and now I feel the burden of the promise I made so lightly.

“If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot

"It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth." — Susanna Kaysen

"I am only on nodding acquaintance with Spring. We talk from the window. But she looks from this distance fairer than ever, more radiant, more exquisite. It is marvellous to know the earth is turned to the light." — Katherine Mansfield

Anna is a feminine given name, the Latin form of the Greek: Ἄννα and the Hebrew name Hannah (Hebrew: חַנָּה, romanized: Ḥannāh), meaning "favour" or "grace".

Hold me close and hold me fast This magic spell you cast, this is la vie en rose When you kiss me, Heaven sighs And though I close my eyes, I see la vie en rose