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
And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.Rose Tremain
3
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.Rose Tremain