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“The most beautiful woman in any room is the woman with the most joy in her heart”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“The most beautiful woman in any room is the woman with the most joy in her heart.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“coddiwompler: someone who travels in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“It was a bond that represented the safety and easiness of family. A bond that is usually lobbed into the back of the dresser drawer, stashed away, forgotten and allowed to loiter with the unused Christmas cards, nutcrackers and Sellotape, until the day came along when you actually needed it, and you opened the drawer with a rummage saying to yourself, ‘I just know I left it in there somewhere.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“Make me a channel of your peace, Where there’s despair in life let me bring hope, Where there is darkness, only light, And where there’s sadness, ever joy.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“stop seeing me as an old lady and see me as I really am. The body you see before you does not represent the mind or the soul.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“Juliet placed a hand on mine. ‘Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“simply believe in love, my love, and everything will always be all right.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“If you believe something will happen, half the battle is over.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“the most beautiful woman in any room is the woman with the most joy in her heart, not with the fewest wrinkles on her face. Wrinkles are beautiful badges of honour – they represent all the fun and laughter and tears in your life. Iron out the lines and you iron out your life, and that is something I would never do.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“Where Angels Sing, by Edward Nancarrow When from this empty world I fall And the light within me fades I’ll think, my love, of a sweeter time When life was light, not shade With bluebirds from this world I’ll fly And to a cove I’ll go To wait for you where angels sing And when it’s time, you’ll know To meet me on the far side where We once led Mermaid home And finally, my love and I Will be, as one, alone”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“Lottie was dozing on a large sofa by the bay window. A King Charles Spaniel lay by her feet. An”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“It was a time of plague and poverty and pandemics,”
― Melanie Hudson, The Night Train to Berlin

“In it, Time says to Alice, ‘Everyone parts with everything eventually, my dear’ and I realised that I have to let Mum ‘be’ not let her go and accept that some relationships are simply impossible to break/forget/blow up.”
― Melanie Hudson, Dear Rosie Hughes

“But Edward and I knew differently, and we knew it from the first, ‘Hello’. Because that was the thing with love at first sight, it was like the birth of time – the big bang of the universe itself. It was the ignition of a silent understanding exchanged in body language – in the blink of an eye, the angle of the head and the positioning of the body. It was that first spark of a silent understanding that set in motion an unstoppable series of events. A motion that creates a kind of energy that forever links two people in an impenetrable and invisible connectedness. A connectedness that almost always brings a heady emotional mix of absolute joy and unbearable pain.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Last Letter from Juliet

“And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Night Train to Berlin

“don’t think that’s what it means. I think it’s about choosing to live life with an open heart and an attitude of hope rather than one of dread and fear. It’s about just knowing, I suppose, that all will be well …’ she placed a hand on his chest”
― Melanie Hudson, The Night Train to Berlin

“Mindfulness is the attentive awareness of the reality of things, especially of the present moment.”
― Melanie Hudson, The Wedding Cake Tree

“Sang in”
― Melanie Hudson, The Night Train to Berlin

“train, on this train …’ Ellie closed the journal. ‘Yes, she did. That’s why I’m here, really. Great Granny Nancy wanted me to follow in her footsteps. I think she was trying to inspire me.’ ‘And how did she meet Alex?’ Ellie looked towards the D-Day Dames rather than at Joe. ‘They met on the train, but she doesn’t say much about it, or about her time in Penberth during that particular trip.’ ‘They fell in love on this train, then?’ Ellie finally looked at him. ‘I guess so …’ She grabbed the”
― Melanie Hudson, The Night Train to Berlin