Kate Mosse Quotes
Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.
Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.