Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1966
..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 throu….
Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories..
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….
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier m….
Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough..
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under..
Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world..
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's….
Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose..
Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve..
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will..
I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to kee….
I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest enc….
So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave..
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….
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 d….
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 Br….
These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly..
The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning..
If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that m….
Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight..