I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.