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A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Carried
Community
Convinced
Dolls
Dresses
Easily
Facility
In The Past
Might
Museum
Only
Past
People
Played
Silver
Storage
Through
Walk
Wedding
Where
Wore
Worked
You
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After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
~ Susanna Kearsley
After
Beauty
Behind
Brought
Darkest
Had
I Tried
Left
Lives
Loss
Love
She
Sister
Think
Time
Touched
Tried
World
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As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Being
Costs
Courteous
Day
Destroy
Dividends
Firsthand
Former
Harsh
How
Improve
Know
Myself
Nothing
Pay
Simple
Single
Smile
Someone
Sometimes
Thoughtful
Unexpected
Waitress
Ways
Word
You
Your
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Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Aunts
Back
Been
Both
Came
Cousins
Ever
Far
Fixed
Grandparents
Growing
Growing Up
Hard
Home
Houses
How
How Far
Last
Lived
Matter
Moved
Off
Other
Point
Regular
Sale
Sets
Those
Uncles
Universe
Up
Various
Visits
Way
Were
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Even a writer like me, who, in 'The Firebird,' is telling the story of people who've been dead for nearly three centuries, needs to take care. Those people may not be around any longer to tell me what actually happened, but neither are they able to defend themselves against unjust portrayals.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Able
Actually
Against
Any
Around
Been
Care
Centuries
Dead
Defend
Even
Happened
Like
Longer
May
Me
Nearly
Needs
Neither
People
Story
Take
Take Care
Tell
Telling
Themselves
Those
Three
Unjust
Who
Writer
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How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Attracting
Books
Characters
Consumed
Everything
Head
How
How Much
Keeping
Lives
Meeting
Missing
Much
Our
Our Lives
People
Resolved
Stop
Story
Talking
Telling
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I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Adapting
Carefully
Changes
Cough
Day
Essential
Everything
Everything Changes
Grumbling
I Can
In My Opinion
Learn
Opinion
Planned
Quickly
Skills
Someone
Then
Thinking
Up
Wakes
Without
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I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.
~ Susanna Kearsley
About
Back
Each
Embarrassment
Everyone
Frequent
Grew
Knew
Learned
Make
Nearly
Odds
Other
Person
Said
Small
Small Town
Something
Them
Town
Up
Very
Were
Whatever
Where
Would
You
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I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Adaptation
Book
Liked
Little
Magic
Movie
Needs
Really
Seen
Space
Story
Tangled
Time
Time And Space
Varied
Weave
Women
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I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.
~ Susanna Kearsley
19th Century
American
Been
Century
Changed
Displayed
Exhibit
First
Large
Museum
Nations
Old
Once
Since
Through
Walked
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I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Adulthood
Another
Back
Came
Childhood
First
Five
Including
Port
Published
Spend
Spent
Well
Which
Years
Young
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I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Bay
Born
By The Time
Canada
City
Engineering
Family
Father
High
High School
I Was Born
Korea
Left
Moved
Ontario
Places
School
Seven
South
South Korea
Taking
Texas
Time
Times
Us
Work
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If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.
~ Susanna Kearsley
About
Been
Bill
Book
Down
Found
Might
Never
New
New York
Our
Out
Own
Second
Second World War
Secret
Sir
True
War
Who
William
Women
Work
World
World War
York
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In my book 'The Winter Sea,' set north of Aberdeen, I couldn't just ignore the fact some people there - especially the people in the past - would speak the Doric.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Book
Fact
Ignore
In The Past
Just
North
Past
People
Sea
Set
Some
Some People
Speak
Winter
Would
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In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.
~ Susanna Kearsley
By The People
Curator
Decide
Discard
Display
Eventually
First
History
Keep
Learned
Lessons
Museums
People
Present
Preserve
Primary
Put
Seek
Shaped
Storage
Student
Summer
Who
Worked
Years
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It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Driving
Driving Force
Force
Happiness
Love
Novel
Pursuit
Romantic
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My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Afternoon
Aunt
Children
Cinema
Every
Home
Library
Movies
Port
Sat
Saturday
Seats
Used
Watching
Where
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One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Back
Best
Challenges
Doing
Face
Give
Interesting
Lives
More
Narrative
Novels
Research
Them
Trace
Try
Vital
Voices
Who
Women
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People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Acknowledge
Also
Beneath
Beside
Cotton
Display
Dresses
Exhibit
Existed
Hang
In The Past
Incomplete
Just
Look
Lovely
Might
Museum
Past
People
Plain
Pretty
Shifts
Them
Wear
Wedding
Wore
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Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.
~ Susanna Kearsley
Because
Blame
Books
Dialect
Down
Every
Fond
Gave
General
Had
Headache
Me
Myself
Out
Put
Read
Readers
Speech
Them
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