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1. "Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn." ~ Rose Tremain
2. "There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be." ~ Rose Tremain
3. "And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable." ~ Rose Tremain
4. "He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers…" ~ Rose Tremain
5. "Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46" ~ Rose Tremain
6. "The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone." ~ Rose Tremain
7. "The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work." ~ Rose Tremain
8. "When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen." ~ Rose Tremain
9. "We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind." ~ Rose Tremain
10. "...together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world." ~ Rose Tremain
11. "HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until someone showed up but then he thought he did not know long a day was a summer day in England and how soon afternoon and evening would arrive and he didn't want to find himself on the street when it got dark." ~ Rose Tremain
12. "Life is not a dress rehearsal." ~ Rose Tremain
13. "The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all." ~ Rose Tremain
14. "When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it." ~ Rose Tremain
15. "Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female." ~ Rose Tremain
16. "Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel." ~ Rose Tremain
17. "A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write." ~ Rose Tremain
18. "I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel." ~ Rose Tremain
19. "I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important." ~ Rose Tremain
20. "I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland." ~ Rose Tremain
21. "Life should be embraced like a lover." ~ Rose Tremain
22. "The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place." ~ Rose Tremain
23. "Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings." ~ Rose Tremain
24. "At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet." ~ Rose Tremain
25. "I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along." ~ Rose Tremain
26. "I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories." ~ Rose Tremain
27. "In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it." ~ Rose Tremain
28. "How could such a picture be in a national newspaper The model had ridiculous breasts the size of pumpkins and lips fat and wet and all that she was wearing was a spangled G-string." ~ Rose Tremain
29. "Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber." ~ Rose Tremain
30. "Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials." ~ Rose Tremain

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Oh." His hips bucked faintly with the moan. "I've got so much for you. So much. I wanna see it slip down your pretty chin when I fill that mouth up."
Author: Cara McKenna

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