The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.