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Derek Oliphant
The senior warden of the rescue squad that Ursula is a part of during World War II. She is a retired hospital matron and is exceptionally calm and cheerful when treating people and responding to incidents. Ursula admires her a great deal. She often serves as a kind of mother figure for Ursula and comforts her in times of crisis during the war, like when Ursula hears the news of Teddy’s death. Miss Woolf dies in one of the raids in 1944.
Miss Woolf Quotes in Life After Life
The Life After Life quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Woolf or refer to Miss Woolf. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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A Long Hard War, Sep 1940
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Of course, even Miss Woolf had not imagined how distressing these sights would be when they involved civilians rather than battlefield soldiers, when they involved shoveling up unidentifiable lumps of flesh or picking out the heartbreakingly small limbs of a child from the rubble.
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A Long Hard War, Oct 1940 (I)
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“Yet we must hold fast to what is good and true. But it all seems so random. One wonders about the divine plan and so on.”
“More of a shambles than a plan,” Ursula agreed.
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Miss Woolf Quotes in Life After Life
The Life After Life quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Woolf or refer to Miss Woolf. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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A Long Hard War, Sep 1940
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Of course, even Miss Woolf had not imagined how distressing these sights would be when they involved civilians rather than battlefield soldiers, when they involved shoveling up unidentifiable lumps of flesh or picking out the heartbreakingly small limbs of a child from the rubble.
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A Long Hard War, Oct 1940 (I)
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“Yet we must hold fast to what is good and true. But it all seems so random. One wonders about the divine plan and so on.”
“More of a shambles than a plan,” Ursula agreed.
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