The Moonlight Palace Quotes

“Let’s agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Nonsense,” Bridget said. “The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Inside every old man lies the heart of a ten-year-old boy. Brave . . . unstoppable. The defender of field mice!”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“I’ve been doing research on my own and conducting interviews with some of the local librarians. Very valuable people, librarians. Like your family, they keep all kinds of records. And unlike your family, they tend not to burn them.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“But it was no use. I had the kind of heart that would always be breaking.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The one sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“We’re not from the same Britain,” Geoffrey said. “I don’t come from your grandfather’s Great Britain. I come from a rat-infested, coal-filled hole in England called Newcastle. My people were all miners, domestics, and dung shovelers.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.” “War springs from unseen and generally insignificant causes.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“TO DAVID. ALL MY LOVE, ALL MY LIFE.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“My inner world was as vast, unlimited, and enchanted as any fairy tale.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“When we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them -- as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The bravest are those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” Thucydides again.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them—as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The only sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.” “War”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.” She”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Let no one say that young love is generous. It is selfish and hungry. And”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Let no one say that young love is generous. It is selfish and hungry.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“to remember the details, I’m not the only one, and you needn’t feel sorry for me. In fact, there are two other”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“A simple yes or no will suffice.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“me for walking too heavily on the wooden”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace