The House at Tyneford Quotes

“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page.”
― Natasha Solomons, The Novel in the Viola

“I took a deep breath and filled my lungs with summer.”
― Natasha Solomons, The Novel in the Viola

“Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.”
― Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford

“They are filled with earnest nonsense, the sort of things that a boy writes to his sweetheart, but which somehow, when they are meant for you, never feel tired or cliched or anything other than absolutely tender and true.”
― Natasha Solomons, The Novel in the Viola

“His skin felt so war, and I wondered that in all her lectures upon proper behaviour, Anna had failed to mention that behaving improperly was much more fun.”
― Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford

“May there be just sufficient clouds in one’s life to make a spectacular sunset.”
― Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford

“I lay in his arms and I understood. I am two women and I love two men. Elise will always love Kit and Alice loves Daniel. This was not the life or the love I had expected but it was love all the same.”
― Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford

“I remember that Sunday with absolute clarity - it was one of those perfect June mornings that make one certain Eden was a summer's day in southern England.”
― Natasha Solomons, The Novel in the Viola

“thousand miles from Vienna, I could see”
― Natasha Solomons, The House at Tyneford