Rose Tremain, Music & Silence Quotes
Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.
And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.