Paula Brackston Quotes

Slowly Tegan looked up and I saw wonderment on her face. It was of the variety only ever found in those young enough to yet have minds as open as the oceans and hearts longing to have proof of magic.

If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether

Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

How much more tuneful are the birds of the woods than the birds of the water. Ducks and geese make their raucous racket without once finding a note of sweetness, whilst these tree dwellers are practiced in the art of melody.

Knowledge cannot be unknown. Experience cannot be unlived.

fear it is written somewhere in the terms of my parental contract: Fret frequently about well-being of offspring.

Nevertheless, disease and misfortune knew no social bounds. Nor did the immensely dangerous business of childbirth

Many in Batchcombe have suffered greatly, William. They look for someone to blame. It was my mother who made me see that.” She hesitated, then added, “People fear what they cannot explain.

After all, are we not measured by the way in which we treat the most vulnerable members of our society?

what can be imagined can be brought into being.

It’s a brilliant example of a writer in total control of her material, apparently effortlessly inhabiting the minds of her characters and giving them wonderfully individual voices.

Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.

For, what is home? Surely more than a set of rooms, a roof, an address? Home suggests belonging. Suggests warmth, safety, companionship. Love.

there is no courage in being fearless. Do you not know that? A person who knows fear and yet can still think of others, well, he be a brave man.