There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope LivelyI have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
Penelope LivelyI'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Penelope LivelyAnd in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.
Penelope Lively