Quotes from Tania Kindersley

You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop.

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do.

I sometimes think we should go back to the old days, when there was proper courtship, when people walked out together for weeks and weeks before anything happened. At least then you know something about each other, you have some solid ground to put your feet on. We're all so impatient now, we just want to get to the main action.

You don't have to have a lifetime of experience; you don't have to be a natural; you don't have to be a perfect expert. You can be like me, and learn this good stuff as you go along. You can make mistakes and have moments of dark despair and sometimes want to give up. And then you can keep on learning, keep on trying, keep on reaching, and you will find your moments of glad grace and catch a glimpse of those mountain peaks. I

I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.' 'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.