Quotes by : Rose Tremain

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a....

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before....

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.