Mariana

by Susanna Kearsley

“It’s all rather like a circle, you know,” she went on, “life is. You start off in one place, and choose your path, and when you finish up you find you’re right back where you started from.

When you’ve gone all the way round, when you’ve closed the circle, then and only then will the purpose of your journey become clear to you.”

“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”