“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“There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.”
Rose Tremain“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“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”
Rose Tremain, Music & Silence“And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.”
Rose Tremain, Music & Silence“Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.”
Rose Tremain, The Gustav Sonata“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, Music & Silence