69 Quotes by Susan Fletcher

I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.

Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.

...grieving needs space, and it needs so much time. And it needs to be done; it cannot be trodden round or not looked in the eye.

...They all try to see more of her, but she hides herself away.It is not how Kitty would grieve. She, if she had to, would grieve wildly - with noise, mucus, paint on the canvas, blustery walks on beaches, curse words and exhausted sleep. But everyone grieves differently just as everyone loves in different ways.

Dunyazad was right about Princess Budur- and all the rest of those story women who dress up as men and do man things perfectly well. One thing those tales are saying underneath is that women aren't inferior. They're equal to men.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.

Mr Phipps seemed to think criminality was passed down through the generations like a stutter, or a squint, or in my case red hair.

We carry them with us... We breathe for them, sing for them soak up stories that they cannot hear. We think they would have loved this... And we smile for them, on their behalf.