78 Quotes by Jennifer Worth

There is something in the eyes of a woman who has lost a child that sets her apart from others. The grief and pain never go away.

I woke in the middle of the night, and he was standing at the side of my bed. He was as real as my husband sleeping beside me. He was tall, and upright, but looked younger than when I had known him, like a handsome man of about sixty or sixty-five. He was smiling, and then he said, “You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.

Love permeated every nook and cranny, every corner and crevice of that little house. You could feel it as soon as you entered the front door, like a presence so tangible you could almost reach out and touch it.

That’s the trouble, I can’t forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.

Health is the greatest of God’s gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider’s web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.

Bah! Suffragettes. I’ve no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself.

Oh – I shall remember the hours that we spent, In age I’ll remember, and not to repent.′ Sister Monica Joan is quoting someone else here, I don’t know who.