The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

if you have a load on your shoulders, you dreamt it up and put it there yourself.”

she thought it would be good to join them with the certainty of finding comfort. But she did not. It had never worked before and it was unlikely to work now. It was not God’s fault; just something to do with her own attitude of mind.

How could you possibly know whether I would miss them or not?

The past is another country, but the journey could be made.

all life is a compromise

any tiny luxury that helped to oil the drudge of existence.

Life goes on. Even in London in wartime. Especially, perhaps, in London, in wartime.”

“You don’t think she had some sort of premonition? That she knew that she was going to die?” “We all know that we are going to die.”

She may not have believed in God, but I’m pretty certain God believed in her.”