Rosamunde Pilcher

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Oscar and I are very close, and yet I know that part of him is still withdrawn, even from me. As though…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“- Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief. ♥”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“A ring was the accepted sign of infinity, eternity. If her own life was that carefully described pencil line, she knew it…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“all its occupants had left without her. This troubled Frances not in the least. She already seemed to have made a lot…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Nothing’s worth anything unless somebody wants it.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She supposed she missed him, but it was not easy to go on missing a person when life had been lived without…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won’t go…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding.…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Not his real name, darling, but my own name for him. I never thought it could be like this. I never thought…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

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

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“The air smelled of box and mint and thyme and newly turned earth. Laura”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She yawned and stretched, and settled back again on her pillows and thought how perfect it would be if sleep could not…

— Rosamunde Pilcher