“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“Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me.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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“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
― Holly Black, quote from Tithe
“Why do you think it is stupid to go to windows instead of to doors?”
“Because you advertise what you’re trying to hide, silly. If I have a secret, I don’t put tape over my mouth and let everyone know I have a secret. I talk just as much as usual, only about something else. Didn’t you ever read any of the sayings of Salvor Hardin? He was our first Mayor, you know.”
“Yes, I know.”
“Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true. Well, when you come in through a window, it’s a lie that’s ashamed of itself and it doesn’t sound true.”
“Then what would you have done?”
“If I had wanted to see my father on top secret business, I would have made his acquaintance openly and seen him about all sorts of strictly legitimate things. And then when everyone knew all about you and connected you with my father as a matter of course, you could be as top secret as you wanted and nobody would ever think of questioning it.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Second Foundation
“In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king”
― Michael Grant, quote from Fear
“But I can’t kill anyone,” said Jonathan. “You know that, Orvar.”
“Not even if it’s a question of your own life?” said Orvar.
“No, not even then,” said Jonathan.
Orvar couldn’t understand that, and neither could Mathias.
“If everyone were like you,” said Orvar, “then evil would reign forever.”
But then I said that if everyone were like Jonathan, there wouldn’t be any evil.”
― Astrid Lindgren, quote from The Brothers Lionheart
“The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from The Rum Diary
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