16 Quotes by Claire Fuller

It’s difficult to live with both hope and grief.

But the world is a nicer place when you think everyone is telling the truth. There are no agendas, no hidden motives; no one lies for dramatic effect.

Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we’re going to live by the sun and the seasons.′ He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.’Our days will be endless.

It’s the worst kind of person who goes back on a promise, even one they made to themselves.

I learned from the wig-men that the law is not about finding the truth, it is about who can tell the most convincing story. It is a game that must be grasped swiftly if you want to win, even if to everyone else it looks as though you have lost.

My father was fond of saying ‘If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.

Now I am a woman of bone and skin, the patches of pigmentation like a map of a rocky archipelago; I am obdurate and uncooperative, drifting on a sea of memory between islands of lucidity.