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A.S. Byatt
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born
August 24, 1936
in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
gender
female
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influences
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Possession
   3.82 avg rating — 22,122 ratings
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published
1990
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62 editions
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The Children's Book
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2009
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28 editions
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Angels and Insects
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1992
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23 editions
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The Virgin in the Garden
3.67 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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1978
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
3.91 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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1994
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Babel Tower
3.77 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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1996
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Still Life
3.79 avg rating — 953 ratings
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1985
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12 editions
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Little Black Book of Stories
3.80 avg rating — 946 ratings
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2003
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The Matisse Stories
3.71 avg rating — 909 ratings
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1991
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
3.83 avg rating — 511 ratings
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1998
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“What is it my dear?"
Ah, how can we bear it?"
Bear what?"
This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?"
We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world."
And every day we shall have less. And then none."
Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?"
No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
Ah, how can we bear it?"
Bear what?"
This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?"
We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world."
And every day we shall have less. And then none."
Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?"
No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side...He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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