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John Geddes

"Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school..."

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"Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school..."

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"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words."

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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

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"Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of " lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night " and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day."

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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

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