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01Undated

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

Rose Tremain / quote

02Undated

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Rose Tremain / quote

03Undated

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

Rose Tremain / quote

04Undated

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Rose Tremain / quote

05Undated

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Rose Tremain / quote

06Undated

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

Rose Tremain / quote

07Undated

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Rose Tremain / quote