{"author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["today","job","people "],"id":2300,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["love","lovers"],"id":8754,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his business, making telephone calls, writing letters, going for walks, breathing, seeing. It was the telling that killed.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["bad-news","death","reality"],"id":18922,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["drinking"],"id":114179,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so ea.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["families","family-relationships","family-saga","shell-seekers"],"id":118697,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["joy","life","opportunity","war"],"id":178419,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["family-love","family-relationship","family-saga","family-values","independence","independent-woman"],"id":192034,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["companions","dogs"],"id":217196,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["family"],"id":230678,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["acceptance-sorrow-truth","grief"],"id":240909,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}