There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!