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  1. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet.
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  2. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    Eliot always said, 'I'm sorry. I had to do that.' If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry."
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  3. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
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  4. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.
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  5. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.
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  6. Rumer Godden _ The Greengage Summer

    On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.
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