Cressida Cowell
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Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
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It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
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A warm knowing.
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I always relate love to happiness.
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Content, assured, indecisive.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
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