Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley

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…

- Susanna Kearsley