I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical pla…

- Sharon Kay Penman

For every wound, the ointment of time.

- Sharon Kay Penman

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are…

- Sharon Kay Penman

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

- Sharon Kay Penman

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

- Sharon Kay Penman

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance,…

- Sharon Kay Penman

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

- Sharon Kay Penman

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

- Sharon Kay Penman

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

- Sharon Kay Penman