In the Orchard, the Swallows Quotes

“Love must be shared, or else it is just madness.”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“The boy I once was is a stranger to me, and sometimes I wonder if terrible experiences are enough to change a person - I mean fundamentally to change a person's nature - or if they merely subdue it, and it endures there beneath, and will reassert itself in time. I wonder if I will be recognized by my family. If those I love will still know me.”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Perhaps you have put the past behind you, and whatever regrets you might have had have been set aside, because you don not see their purpose. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on the lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one life is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Every day I long for something I will never have, and I am learning to live with that longing. Is it not better than forgetting - to face our regrets for what they are, to know their measure, to know the value of what we have lost?”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows