As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
Memory is the only friend of grief.