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Annie Barrows Quotes

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

Annie Barrows
Stories, Ends, Company
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.224, A&C Black

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

Annie Barrows
Book
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.56, A&C Black

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

Annie Barrows
Book, Talking, Receiving
Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

Annie Barrows
Champagne, Grown Women, I Can
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.52, A&C Black

Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Annie Barrows
Mind, Be Kind, Cry
Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

Annie Barrows
Lonely, Thinking, Mind

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