Alexandra Walsh > Quotes

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Forgotten Palace

“To enable us to exist to the limit of our abilities we have to learn what makes our hearts beat, to be ourselves and to live truthfully within our own skin.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Music Makers

“silence isn’t weakness, pausing gives you time to think and in those crucial seconds, you take back the power.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Music Makers

“Life throws these things at us, we might crumble for a while but with each other, we survive.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“Our trip today must remain a secret,” said Penny. “You are not lying to anyone, Osyth. You are merely making an adult choice to keep your business to yourself. It is a lesson and a skill that will serve you well if you’re able to master the technique. You do not have to share everything you think or feel with those around you; in fact, it is sensible if you don’t.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“Her grandmother and Angharad had gone shopping. She had felt too tired to join them, which was a shame as Angharad was having a dress fitting and she had wanted to be there to share her friend’s excitement.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“The child was happiest left to play alone, entering a world of her own creation where fairies sang, waited on by fleets of magical servants.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“It’s like life, we all drift around, spinning in circles, watched by others, thinking we have control until, bam, we’re hit with something unexpected. Yet somehow we keep on dancing through our lives, drifting around the ballroom at the lunatics’ ball.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“No man can hold his head high if he tries to pretend he is the master over a magnificent beast. We are lower than them in every sense and these great creatures must be treated with deference.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime

“You do not have to share everything you think or feel with those around you; in fact, it is sensible if you don’t.”
― Alexandra Walsh, The Wind Chime