The Silver Pencil Quotes

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“Strange, she thought, how friends come when you need them most! Some of them come and stay a long time...others come in and go out, but always leave something of themselves.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“But teaching was like a rubber band. It could expand and take in all kinds of experience, or it could remain, wound tight and unyielding, around the small package that was your life. Perhaps it had something to do with the kind of person you were. Perhaps it only depended on circumstances.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“(A)nd while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil