Kathy Shuker > Kathy's Quotes

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps that’s just as well.”
― Kathy Shuker, Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts

“He had found that jealousy – or perhaps the fear of betrayal – was no respecter of age. Indeed, if anything, he thought getting older simply made it worse; he felt more vulnerable now.”
― Kathy Shuker, Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts