Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

Staying physically active - walking or running every day - and eating healthily is the best way to stay fit.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.