Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished …

Gerald Durrell
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Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. ✨ Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). The best of Gerald Durrell, Harpercollins
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