The Forget-Me-Not Sonata Quotes

“It's only after people die that we realise how much we love them. We must wait until then to show him how much he means to us all.”
― Santa Montefiore, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

“When a heart breaks it makes no noise. There are no outward signs, no rash, no bruising. Only a strange calmness that takes over when there are no more tears to shed and no more voice left to howl one's greed into the silence and the resignation that numbs one's senses like a drug, for how else would one be able to go on? People survive in spite of themselves.”
― Santa Montefiore, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

“Because beautiful things always make us sad,' she replied, closing her eyes and nestling her head against his.
'Why?'
'Because we can't hold onto them forever.'
'No, because they're transient, like a rainbow or a sunset. Nothing beautiful lasts. Or perhaps because they remind us of where we came from and our spirits long to return”
― Santa Montefiore, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

“I read a lot. I read everything. Novels, hundreds of novels. You learn a lot about human nature through literature.”
― Santa Montefiore, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

“[...] I'm sure love would cure him. He needs someone to love him and look after him.'
'We all need that,”
― Santa Montefiore, The Forget-Me-Not Sonata