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• Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar. Oh, that's vampires, isn't it? I think I am a little giddy. (After meeting Mr. Markham V. Reynolds, Jr.)

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Moon, Thinking, Bystanders

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.38, A&C Black

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• He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Children, Imagination, Child Rearing

  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.43, Dial Press

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• Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Disappointment, Passion, Unlikely

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Moses: God or crowd control?!?

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Crowds, Moses

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• Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Kindness, Hate, Men

  "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society".

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• Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Gentleman, Tubas, Flutes

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• I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Philosophical, Reading, Sides

  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.32, Dial Press

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• Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Grease, Ears, Grass

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.61, A&C Black

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