Rosamunde Pilcher Quotations

Life for women in rural Scotland is not like anywhere else in the world. We all live very far apart, and you don't just ring your girlfriend up for a cup of coffee. There really is no sense of community, no pubs, no clubs. The golf clubs are male prerogatives, and the women are isolated and have to have their own resources.

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete.

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.