They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.