The Empty House Quotes

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

“She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

“sloped down to distant cliffs; farmland, ribboned with yellow gorse, broken by outcrops of granite, and patchworked into dozens of small fields. Like a quilt, thought Virginia, and saw the pasture fields as scraps of green velvet, the greenish gold of new-cut hay as shining satin, the”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

“frigorífico, la”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, La casa vacía

“(But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

“What do you suppose their”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

“told her. “There’s smoke in the chimney,”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House