The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Penelope learned to live without him, because there was no alternative. You couldn’t say “I can’t bear it” because if you didn’t bear it, the only other thing to do was to stop the world and get off, and there did not seem any practical way to do this.

For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember. Better to have loved and lost, she told herself, than never to have loved at all. And know that it was true.

“I’m not really brave. But nothing’s so bad if you can do something.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got.