Ellam

“I felt the protective dam I'd built around my heart began to crumble. I turned my eyes back to him and felt the love finally start to trickle out through the fissures. And hoped that one day it would become a torrent.”
― Lucinda Riley, The Shadow Sister

“It seems impossible to believe that a girl not yet in her teens could fall in love, but I remember so vividly the moment I first laid eyes on him...”
― Lucinda Riley, The Italian Girl

“I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died...”
― Lucinda Riley, The Shadow Sister

“I wonder now why humans hate the map of their life that appears on their own bodies, when a tree like this, or a faded painting, or a near-derelict uninhabited building is lauded for its antiquity.”
― Lucinda Riley, Helenas Geheimnis