Occupation: Author Birth: 1976
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair..
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man..
She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well..
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside..
That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets..
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell..
We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine..
And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassan….
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time..
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion..
When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge..
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, ….
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . ..
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never sh….
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliabl….
To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness..
You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. ….
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton.
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized..
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did..
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe..