Debbie Jackson

“How the roles reversed as we get older. The parent becomes the child needing the care and the reassurance and the daughter.”
― Chris Metherell, Cornish cream and pilchards

“The French have a saying – is it the French? I don’t know, I believe so – there is a saying that you do not put a boiling kettle upon the fire. You put cold water in the kettle and allow it to warm. So with marriage.”
― Winston Graham, The Black Moon

“Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, Paris

“Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.”
― Winston Graham, The Black Moon