41 Quotes by Hazel Gaynor

Journalism isn’t about sugarcoating everything to make it more palatable.

It is only by believing in magic that we can ever hope to find it.

Yorkshire’s autumn was as great a gift as Yorkshire’s summer. I loved watching the rusting of the leaves while the dales mellowed to shades of ochre, and rose hips and blackberries grew deliciously fat on their branches. The morning mists were mystical and magical to me, and the rose-glow of the evening sun lent the sky a hypnotic light that matched any Cape Town sunset.

They say time is a great healer, but they are wrong. Time is a great illusionist, that’s all. It tricks and it taunts. It sweeps away minutes and hours, months and years without any release from this endless wondering.

Perhaps we must find something to attach ourselves to in such unsettling times. Sometimes, I feel I could be blown away on a breeze like a dandelion seed if I don’t grasp hold of something solid and permanent and unchanging.

Give the world your best, and the best will come back to you.

I hope Christmas was bearable over there. How long we anticipate it and how quickly it passes.

Even the brave were once afraid. However well I might hide it, the truth is, I am terrified.

We shouldn’t take our life for granted, and we should do whatever we can to make ourselves happy.