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What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find...

Rosamunde Pilcher

What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find...

Tags: family relationships, family saga, shell seekers

Loving isn’t finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Loving isn’t finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

About Author
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for Winter Solstice.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Rosamunde Pilcher

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Tags: lovers

She yawned and stretched, and settled back again on her pillows and thought how perfect it would be if sleep could not only restore one but iron out all anxieties in the same process, so that one coul...

Rosamunde Pilcher

She yawned and stretched, and settled back again on her pillows and thought how perfect it would be if sleep could not only restore one but iron out all anxieties in the same process, so that one coul...

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who wi...

Rosamunde Pilcher

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who wi...

She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of sm...

Rosamunde Pilcher

She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of sm...

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.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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.

Sloped down to distant cliffs; farmland, ribboned with yellow gorse, broken by outcrops of granite, and patchworked into dozens of small fields. Like a quilt, thought Virginia, and saw the pasture fie...

Rosamunde Pilcher

Sloped down to distant cliffs; farmland, ribboned with yellow gorse, broken by outcrops of granite, and patchworked into dozens of small fields. Like a quilt, thought Virginia, and saw the pasture fie...

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

Rosamunde Pilcher

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to ha...

Rosamunde Pilcher

On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to ha...

She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

Rosamunde Pilcher

She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

Tags: love

Go and be happy.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Go and be happy.

I know we didn’t have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two.

Rosamunde Pilcher

I know we didn’t have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two.

It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years sli...

Rosamunde Pilcher

It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years sli...

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

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 far wrong.

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

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 talent.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

Rosamunde Pilcher

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

Tags: family relationship, family saga, family values, independence, independent woman

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the p...

Rosamunde Pilcher

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the p...

[Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.

Rosamunde Pilcher

[Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.

She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.

Rosamunde Pilcher

She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.