I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived
Karen MaitlandBut then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
Karen MaitlandRain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
Karen MaitlandYou've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
Karen Maitland