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Elmet
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"Elmet" Quotes

A family living on the margins of society in rural England is caught up in a cycle of violence and power struggles.

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I think of that boy who was my brother, who has been gone for a long time now.

Fiona Mozley

familyloss

The land was too hard to be called arable.

Fiona Mozley

naturestruggle

I knew that if I asked my father, he would say that there was no such thing as a fair fight.

Fiona Mozley

fairnessjustice

We all have to find a way to live in this world.

Fiona Mozley

lifesurvival

It's hard to know what to do when you have been made to feel small.

Fiona Mozley

struggleself-worth

He was a man who knew how to be alone and how to make others be alone.

Fiona Mozley

isolationloneliness

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to settle this or that disturbance in their own minds.

Fiona Mozley

truthself-deception

There was no moon and the sky was full of stars.

Fiona Mozley

naturebeauty

I looked at the trees, which had been there long before I was born and would be there long after I was gone.

Fiona Mozley

naturetimelessness

Sometimes I think I am a part of the land and sometimes I think the land is a part of me.

Fiona Mozley

connectionnature