There is much that I remember but which is painful....

“ There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right. ”

P.D. James

From : Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography