It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.
Rosamunde PilcherAnd 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 PilcherThey will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: art inspiration painting
Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: grief acceptance-sorrow-truth
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: hope possibilities boredom
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: life war joy opportunity
A ring was the accepted sign of infinity, eternity. If her own life was that carefully described pencil line, she knew it all at once that the two ends were drawing close together. I have come full circle, she told herself, and wondered what had happened to all the years. It was a question, which from time to time, caused her some anxiety and left her fretting with a dreadful sense of waste. But now, it seemed, the question had become irrelevant, and so the answer, whatever it was, was no longer of any importance.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: life death circle
- Elfrida, are you about to cry?
- I might be.
- Why?
- Relief. ♥
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
Rosamunde PilcherAlone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual as sensuous, like wearing silk, or swimming without a bathing suit, or walking along a totally empty beach with the sun on your back. One was restored by solitude. Refreshed.
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