97 Quotes by Rosamunde Pilcher

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    She may not have believed in God, but I’m pretty certain God believed in her.

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    Man’s inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person’s own private responsibility.

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    Churches are so nice when they’re empty. Like empty streets. You can see their shape.

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    Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren’t perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to think about but herself. There was time to stop and look, and, looking, to remember. Visions widened, like views seen from the slopes of a painfully climbed mountain, and having come so far, it seemed ridiculous not to pause and enjoy them.

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    She had never lived alone before, and at first found it strange, but gradually had learned to accept it as a blessing and to indulge herself in all sorts of reprehensible ways, like getting up when she felt like it, scratching herself if she itched, sitting up until two in the morning to listen to a concert.

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    He’s threatening to breed polo ponies, but he’s always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don’t suppose he will.

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    Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

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