The Pearl Sister

Remember that panic stifles your instincts and makes you blind.

So many humans wandered round in circles, wishing for a future they were too fearful to seize.

And actually, Pa was wrong, because even if other people couldn’t take talent away from you, they could destroy your confidence with their negative comments and mess with your brain, so you didn’t know who you were any more or how to please anyone, least of all yourself.

Everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of the human learning curve, as long as you do learn from them

Love is both the most selfish and unselfish emotion in the world, Celaeno, and its two facets cannot be separated. The need in oneself battles against the wish for the loved one to be happy.

thought about how, depending where you were on the earth, your particular strengths and weaknesses were either positives or negatives.

Heinz baked beans and a gigantic bar of Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut chocolate.

And never ever compare yourself to other artists. Whether they are better, or worse, it only leads to despair ...

my failure poured through me. This man had gone to so much trouble to find me and wanted to hear what a

And I understood that the heart had an infinite capacity to extend itself. And the fuller it was, the more healthily and happily it beat inside you.

Kitty had realized a long time ago that privilege had isolated her. Even though part of her longed to run downstairs and join in, she realized that now, she could never be accepted among them. “And there they all are, dreaming that one day they might be up here where I am,” she sighed as James arrived to draw her bath.

the Berners Bank number Star had left for me. “Hello, can I speak to Linda Potter, please?” “I’m afraid she’s left,” said a clipped female voice. “Are you the lady who called a couple of days ago?” “Yes, I was just . . .”—I thought

—El amor es a la vez el sentimiento más generoso y el más egoísta del mundo, Celeno, y esas dos vertientes no pueden separarse. Nuestra necesidad batalla con el deseo de que el ser querido sea feliz.

The cruelty and harshness of life in Broome – especially

It took me all that time out there alone to understand that success and fame for any true artist is a mirage. The true joy is in the creative process itself. You will always be a slave to it, and, yes, it will dominate your life, control you like a lover. But unlike a lover, it will never leave you,” he said solemnly. “It’s inside you forever.

If living in Australia had taught her anything, it was that human life was fragile; nature was in charge and cared not a jot for the havoc it wreaked on those who populated its earth.

Then I closed my eyes and visualised a human heart beating. I watched it expand as it encompassed all the new people that I loved. And I understood that the heart had an infinite capacity to extend itself. And the fuller it was, the more healthily and happily it beat inside you.

Ik bedacht dat het afhangt van waar je je bevindt of je sterke en zwakke punten positief of negatief worden gewaardeerd.

En ik begreep dat het hart altijd in staat was om een plekje voor iemand te maken. Hoe voller het zat, des te gezonder en gelukkiger je was.

Ne znam u što ti vjeruješ, ali nijedan muškarac ni žena zacijelo ne mogu poreći da postoji nešto iznad nas, zar ne?

Ljubav je istodobno najsebičniji i najnesebičniji osjećaj na svijetu, Kelena, i njezina se dva lica ne daju razdvojiti. Potreba u čovjeku bori se protiv želje da voljena osoba bude sretna. Stoga, nažalost, ljubav nije nešto što treba racionalizirati niti joj itko može umaknuti, zar ne?