"Mothering Sunday" Quotes
A maid's affair with a wealthy neighbor has lasting implications on her life.
fiction | 177 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It was a world of secrets, a world of silence, a world of lies.
The truth is that love, even in its most ardent and passionate beginnings, is not always enough to sustain a life.
Nothing that happens in a day is without consequence.
That's what life is, she thought: a never-ending series of losses.
She understood the comfort of routine, the relief of the familiar.
Not knowing is the most intimate state there is.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
The thing about stories is that they are usually a long time in the making.
We all have our mysteries.
The heart is like the sea, she thought. It's never full.
