Quotes from Alice Dalgliesh

What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

ARAH lay on a quilt under a tree. The darkness was all around her, but through the branches she could see one bright star. It was comfortable to look at.

The next night was quite different. They came at sundown to a settlement. The houses were brown and homelike

Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.

A)nd while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.

But teaching was like a rubber band. It could expand and take in all kinds of experience, or it could remain, wound tight and unyielding, around the small package that was your life. Perhaps it had something to do with the kind of person you were. Perhaps it only depended on circumstances.

Strange, she thought, how friends come when you need them most! Some of them come and stay a long time...others come in and go out, but always leave something of themselves.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.