Rachel Hore > Quotes

“I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.”
― Rachel Hore, A Gathering Storm

“You're my lodestar – that's the one that sailors followed, the Pole Star that took them safely home to harbour.” he said.
“And I suppose you're like a shooting star” she responded “Always travelling in unexpected directions”
And like a shooting star, he had disappeared over the edge of her world, taking all the light and leaving her in cold darkness.”
― Rachel Hore, A Place of Secrets

“I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.”
― Rachel Hore, The Glass Painter's Daughter

“So she lived her life day by day, unable to mourn the past she’d suppressed or to hope for the future. She wasn’t unhappy, exactly. Rather, her heart had frozen up inside. Only in sleep did she know deep happiness or sorrow. Sometimes her dreams were full of noise or fear or simply laced with loneliness.”
― Rachel Hore, A Week in Paris

“Mark had gone, passed into the care of the Keeper of the Stars, but the stars were still there.”
― Rachel Hore, A Place of Secrets

“She told him how she was an orphan and couldn't imagine what it must be like to be part of a proper family.”
― Rachel Hore, A Week in Paris

“door”
― Rachel Hore, A Beautiful Spy

“cows,”
― Rachel Hore, One Moonlit Night

“Edith”
― Rachel Hore, The Love Child

“they’d”
― Rachel Hore, The Gathering Storm

“you’re the double-glazing people”
― Rachel Hore, A Place of Secrets