Clare Morrall > Quotes

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”
― Clare Morrall, The Language of Others

“We sit together in silence for a while. This is what I have always liked about James. We can make a good silence together. There's something between us that doesn't need words or actions. It settles around us and I can feel it now, hovering gently, ready to wrap me in its nebulous folds, like a delicate lace shawl. I want it to be like this always, something inside us meeting and holding hands, something calm and soothing and healing.”
― Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

“I exist in the eye of the storm, the calm in the centre of a perpetual hurricane of cars and lorries heading for the M6, the north and Scotland, or south to Penzance and Land’s End. I sometimes wonder if they don’t go on the motorway at all, that I hear the same vehicles circling endlessly, a kind of multiple Flying Dutchman, doomed to travel for ever. I don’t regret for one minute that I am no longer one of them.”
― Clare Morrall, The Roundabout Man

“I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.”
― Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

“Right now, at this moment in time, life was just right. He'd discovered this before. If you don't look forward and you don't look back, you can fix yourself in now and enjoy it.”
― Clare Morrall, Natural Flights of the Human Mind

“If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.”
― Clare Morrall