1
Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.Rose Tremain
2
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.Rose Tremain
3
Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.Rose Tremain
4
And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.Rose Tremain
5
There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.Rose Tremain
6
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.Rose Tremain
7
Life is not a dress rehearsal.Rose Tremain