“Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Not his real name, darling, but my own name for him. I never thought it could be like this. I never thought one could be so close, and yet so different to a single human being. He is everything I've never been, and yet I love him more than any person or anything I've ever known.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though part of him was still in another place. Another country. Journeying, perhaps. Or in exile. Across the sea. And I can't be with him, because I haven't got the right sort of passport.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of small talk, and while others chatted, over meals or an evening drink, she was always attentive, but often silent. Her relationships, however, were deeply affectionate and caring.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“- Elfrida, are you about to cry?
- I might be.
- Why?
- Relief. ♥”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“One just had to be content with what had happened so far.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“I know we didn’t have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Carrie could not remember how long it was since some other person had cherished her. Had said, 'You look tired.' And, 'How about a little rest?' She had spent too many years being strong, looking after others and their problems...The day progressed, and through her window Carrie watched the weather and was glad she did not have to be out in it. Snow showers came and went; the sky was grey. From time to time she heard the faint keening of wind, whining around the old house. It was all rather cosy. She remembered as a child being ill, and in bed, and the awareness of others getting on with the business of day-to-day life without herself having to participate in any sort of way. Telephones rang, and someone else hurried to answer the call. Footsteps came and went; from behind the closed door, voices called and answered. Doors opened and shut. Towards noon, there came smells of cooking. Onions frying, or perhaps a pot of soup on the boil. The luxuries of self-indulgence, idleness, and total irresponsibility were all things that Carrie had long forgotten.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Oh.” Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister’s wife.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“What’s this? Bacon and tangerines. We are going to have an orgy.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“I feel old and finished. I’m nearly thirty now.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“All the estate houses were the same design. Two up and two down. Originally. Little kitchens and bathrooms were added on after the war.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“cuckold. I am a cuckold. I have been cuckolded.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“Elfrida’s vision of an old folks’ home was a little fuzzy, on account of her never having been in one.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“I’ll probably just stay in Inverness until the orgies of hogmanay”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
“It's all so sweet. Needing each other and finding each other.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from Winter Solstice
Rosamunde Pilcher
Born place: in Lelant, Cornwall, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 22, 1924
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“Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Zeroes
“For example, basil is great for curing stomach cramps, and sage is good for anxiety or depression.”
― Mark Edwards, quote from The Magpies
“He did atrocious things, but it was him I wanted. Always, only him.
Troy stopped when we were nose to nose. Toe to toe. I loved watching those eyes from up-close. They were so ocean blue, no wonder they made my head swim.
“I love you, Red. I love you determined, tough, innocent, resilient…” His brows furrowed as he drank me in, stroking the curve of my face with his calloused fingertips. “I love you broken, insecure, scared, furious and pissed off…” He let a small smile loose.
I actually felt it, even though it was on his lips.
“I love every part of you, the good and the bad, the hopeless and the assertive. We don’t just love. We heal each other with every touch and complete each other with ever kiss. And fuck, I know it’s corny as hell, but that’s what I need. You’re what I need.”
My eyes fluttered shut, a lone tear hanging from the tip of my eyelash.
“We don’t have ordinary words between us. You always set my fucking brain on fire when you talk to me. We don’t even have ordinary moments of silence. I always feel like I’m playing with you or being played by you when you’re around. And I refuse to let you walk out on this, on us.”
He cupped my cheeks and I locked his palms in place, tightening my grip. I never wanted him to let go. He dipped his head down, tilting his forehead against mine. I knew he was right. Knew that I’d already forgiven him. Probably before I even knew what he did, when we were still living together. Hell, probably on that dance floor, when I was nine.
My capturer.
My monster.
My savior.
“I’m an asshole, was an asshole, and have every intention of staying an asshole. It’s the makeup of my fucking DNA. But I want to be your asshole. To you, I can be good. Maybe even great. For you, I’ll stop the rain from falling and the thunder from cracking and the wind from fucking blowing. And yes, I sure as hell knew you’d come back. You came straight back into my arms, flew back to your nest, lovebird. Now why would you do that if you didn’t love the shit out of me?”
My eyes roamed his face. His hands felt delicious on my skin. It was like he was pumping life into me with his fingertips. Like he made me whole before I even knew parts of me were missing.”
― L.J. Shen, quote from Sparrow
“You seem to have this strange image of me as a lost child, like I’ve just been thrown on the side of the road like garbage, or roadkill, but kids like me? We’re not lost. We may be the only ones who never are. We always know exactly where we are and where we can go. And where we can’t.”
― Dot Hutchison, quote from The Butterfly Garden
“other lightning passing through the fireball’s nucleus. For him fireballs were merely a fascinating nuisance, yet he took the time to follow this apparently useless research wherever it might lead—and in the process claimed that he had learned how to create the phenomenon at will.15 Modern scientists, using the most powerful nuclear accelerators, have tried and failed to replicate his achievement (although the fascinating, and potentially valuable, nuisance still occurs unasked).”
― quote from Tesla: Man Out of Time
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