The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Susanna Kearsley

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..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

Susanna Kearsley


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Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

Susanna Kearsley

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Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Susanna Kearsley


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Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Susanna Kearsley


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But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

Susanna Kearsley

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There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

Susanna Kearsley


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Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

Susanna Kearsley


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Oliver...'
'What?'
'I do like you.'
'But?'
'I just don't want you to think that I'm... that is, I'm really not looking for...'
'Hey.' I could hear the faint smile in his voice. 'It's a book, not an etching.

Susanna Kearsley

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Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

Susanna Kearsley


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