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Date Posted: Sun, May 15 2022, 3:44:42
Author: Kathy in PA
Subject: QOTD for Sunday, May 15, 2022. From “Go Tell The Bees That I’m Gone” written by Diana Gabaldon.

Chapter 10
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme


Bree took a deep breath, looking once more at the children.

“It’s not that we want them to forget,” she said quietly. “There were - are - will be - people and things they loved from …….. our time. And we don’t know whether they might sometime ……. eventually……… go back. But we have to be careful which memories from that time we keep among us, talk about. Remember.” I saw her long throat bob slightly as she swallowed.
“It probably wouldn’t cause any trouble if Mandy told people about toilets, for instance- especially if I built one,” she added, breaking into a brief smile. “But there are other things.”

“Aye,” said Jamie, softly. “I suppose there are.” He laid a hand on my thigh, and I covered it. He could see what I saw: the look on their faces, Roger and Brianna both. I’d seen it in the days near the end of World War II, he’d seen it in the months and years after Culloden. The look of exiles, necessity covering mourning, bravery turning away from memories that would never be left behind, no matter how deeply they were buried.

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[> This was an open the book quote and when I first started reading I thought it nicely followed Cindy’s theme of keeping memories alive. But then the next paragraph immediately made me think of the Ukrainians. It’s so easy to get lost in these books because they’re just so real without overdoing it. -- Kathy in PA, Sun, May 15 2022, 17:58:49


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[> Can you imagine Mandy talking about airplanes, and how they've flown in them? If someone from the Ridge tell her it was nonsense, the "feisty wee baggage" would be right there insisting it was true. And should she then entreat her parents to back her up, how would THAT go?? -- DianaH, Mon, May 16 2022, 9:28:45


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