Julie G’s Reviews > Warleggan > Status Update

To retire with dignity is a hard and bitter thing, especially with three men staring after you and no doubt talking behind their hands.

I have spoken as if all of the weakness, all the shortcomings were on his side. Do you think I've not had time enough since to look into my own? What happened, the way it happened, showed me up to myself. Do you know what's it like when your anger and bitterness are so great that you can only hurt yourself -- and go on hurting yourself for ever and ever, it seems, and there's no escape?

She was a person whose looks would always be volatile, but just now they were at a low ebb.

"The good things and the bad things go together in her."

"When admiration turns to contempt, it is time to go."

The sea was as wild as winter, and between the white lines of breakers was a vivid oily green.

All this life he was living now was an uneasy dream, something from which he still hoped to wake.

From the moment of [her husband's] death all her emotions had needed new names.

Long-standing ties of affection and habit had been broken.

They moved off slowly out of the glade, and nothing was left but some hoof prints and a few broken bluebells to mark the emotion which had flared there.