Rebecca's Choice Quotes

“I look out at the weather station below and my heart contracts. I must be grateful to have spent such passionate, endearing moments with a man that I love so fully. Many do not find such a love in all of their days. Now, I have no tears left to flow. I am pointed in a new direction, one where if I plant the seeds then surely love will follow”
― Heidi Gallacher, Rebecca's Choice

“I turn back to the window. It is as if time slows, as if the gaps between the hollow ticks from the old clock have widened. I watch the weather-crazed animal, unleashed from its flailing, broken buggy, galloping towards the hostelry. I take a step back from the window. As I do so the brilliant lightning fades, but there is a new soft light, a long triangle of light, stretching in the way of the horse. I watch as somebody staggers out of the doorway of the Carpenter's Arms, stumbling forwards into the rain”
― Heidi Gallacher, Rebecca's Choice

“I do wish that Geoffrey and I had more fun together. He is older than me, and I sometimes feel he is not interested in what I have to say. He likes to be on his own, I think.' I gaze out over the river and watch a couple of birds swooping high on the breeze. 'But I know that he is busy and has much work to do...”
― Heidi Gallacher, Rebecca's Choice

“One night when we were lying in our bed, Geoffrey had told me of the old belief: 'Our baby cannot be born in the bed that he or she was conceived in. It is not allowed - tradition dictates that it has to be in a different bed.”
― Heidi Gallacher, Rebecca's Choice