The Shell Seekers
Rosamunde Pilcher
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
“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 remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”
“Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.”
“It was good and nothing good is ever lost.”
“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.”
“The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.”
“What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily." (Quoted from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim)”
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”
“She may not have believed in God, but I’m pretty certain God believed in her.”
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family-values, independent-woman, family-relationships, love, lovers, shell-seekers, families, acceptance-sorrow-truth, family-relationship, family-saga, independence, family-love, grief
