The Rose Garden Quotes

“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ...”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“always best to think the worst of everyone, for that way you’ll be seldom disappointed.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“And has the truth become the property of those who can afford it?’ The”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“I'd met people in my life who were pure poison. I had learnt to know the look of them - the way their smiles came and went and never touched their eyes, those eyes that could be so intense at times and yet revealed no soul. Such people might look normal, but inside it was as though some vital part of them was missing, and whenever I saw eyes like that I'd learnt to turn and run and guard my back while I was leaving.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“I would argue ’tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories. That is why we find that having lived them once, we never can recapture them.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Life is always uncertain,’ he said with a shrug. ‘We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Some things only needed time to find their proper footing. Time and patience.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“It seemed to me incredible a light as strong as hers could be extinguished so completely without leaving some small glow behind, the way a lamp that's been switched off will sometimes dimly shine against the darkness. I'd felt certain I would feel her presence somewhere... but I hadn't.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Vidines žaizdas buvo lengviau paslėpti, tačiau sunkiau užsigydyti.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Kiek laiko mudviem skirta, - pasakė jis, - tiek ir užteks.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Mano įsitikinimu, ne vieta, o žmonės su kuriais ja daliniesi, nulemia brangiausius prisiminimus. Štai kodėl nieko negalima susigrąžinti.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Šis atkampus vakarinis Didžiosios Britanijos kampelis turėjo kažką, kas pavergia sielą, ir nebepaleidžia. Kažkokia archajiška ir nežabota dvasia slypėjo viržiais apaugusiose dykynėse ir juodose uolose, o jūros balsas, nesiliovė šnabždėjęs apie neregimus slėpiningus dalykus.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Nije još mogla da objasni, čak ni sebi, san koji je usnila posle njihovog susreta u kantini. Gospode, zapanjila se kad su joj sutradan u glavi iskrsnuli odjeci tog sna. Nije bio seksualan; opio ju je daleko više, i bio je mnogo opasniji. Taj san ju je ispunio snažnom i neobjašnjivom čežnjom za dalekim mestima i vremenima, žudnjom za koju je mislila da ju je odavno prerasla, a kad se ujutru probudila i shvatila da mora živeti bez te čežnje, osetila se kao da joj je umro neko drag. Trudila se da izbaci iz glave taj san, njegove glade senke koje su odbijale da se rasplinu.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“For what is it to die,”’ I read, ‘“but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to… but to…”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can’t be done. You damage them,’ he said. ‘As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won’t ever fly the same. It’s kinder just to let them go.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“When I meet a wind I cannot fight,’ he said, ‘I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“clearing and into the”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden