Quotes from Rosamunde Pilcher

she would cross an empty moor, and the road would slip down into a tiny valley thick with rhododendrons, where enviable gardens were still verdant with hydrangeas and the dangling ballerina blossoms of fuchsia.

Flora decided there was something special about two middle-aged people who shared a bond, not only of affection, but passion as well, so that when they met in the middle of the field, embracing without restraint or embarrassment, it was as though they were coming together after a separation of many months.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.

arranged, and cut and

cuckold. I am a cuckold. I have been cuckolded.

Grief was not a state of mind, but a physical thing, a void, a deadening blanket of unbearable pain, precluding all solace. His only protection, and one that he had built himself

was a palisade of noncommunication.

She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.

It seemed that shopping could provide consolation if one was unhappy; a buzz of excitement if one was bored; self-indulgence if one had been rejected. Extravagant and frivolous maybe, but better surely than self-pity, turning for comfort to casual lovers, or taking to the bottle.

spoke. "How extraordinary. It's

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Things only happen once. Do you ever think, Judith? It can be a bit the same, of course, but never quite the same

She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable.

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

you can't be anybody but yourself. At the end of the day, you're stuck with that

Blimey, it's parky.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards.

Dad, if you're there, I'm sort of doing this for you. Don't let me be too useless.

and a fine new moon, delicate as an eyelash, hung above them in the sapphire sky.

A year. They had known each other a year. They [Janey and David] had this closeness, this rapport. But the final certainty was missing, and it was this void that, because she loved him so much, she was learning to live with. ['Anniversary']

I think,' said Leo [Walton], 'that he [William, 'Tiger'] must have fallen in love with you, he certainly remembered you with the eye of love.' ['Skelmerton']

And she [Joanna Crayshaw] had discovered that if you were safe and happy and loved, it became easy to laugh at yourself. ['A Place Like Home']

Elfrida's vision of an old folks' home was a little fuzzy, on account of her never having been in one.

Possessiveness smothers. [Liz Searley, 'The Stone Boy']