Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

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

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.