Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.