Quotes from Josephine Cox

When you play, you must open your heart to its magic. Listen to what it tells you, and you'll be repaid tenfold.

When he played the guitar, the music was in his head and in his heart.

That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young and old. It lifts the spirit and touches the heart, when it stops it lives on inside you, making you richer in mind and spirit.

way and that,

Shameful, wouldn't you

at him. 'What could be wrong?' Not knowing how to answer, she turned the question back to

appreciate your finer qualities

Dad, I know it,' he said over his shoulder. A

the brush and flung it across the dressing

same mould as Ruth Blake! God-given

walking away, Nelly also got to her feet and quickly took up her place beside Emma. Content and comfortable in each other's company, Emma and Nelly meandered through the garden, a lovely place of stately old trees and spreading shrubs already heavy with buds. At the farthest end, away from the house, there was a small

living to make, and he wanted to make it here in these parts, where

God knows, it ain't

behind closed doors. Yet Starlena had

her old friends. Later, when they had a few minutes alone, she mentioned to Ben that tomorrow would be a difficult day for Lucy. 'God only knows how she'll cope when she goes to the churchyard and sees little Jamie's grave. It's bound to bring it all back with a vengeance.' Ben had few doubts. 'Your mother will cope like she always does,' he assured her. 'She's the strongest, most determined woman I

Straightening his slight form he told her in

that would be a welcome