Lucinda Kate Riley
Lucinda Riley was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction, originally an actress. (Lucinda Riley Quotes)
“A human being without love is akin to a rosebud without water. It will survive for a time, but never open into full bloom.”
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister
“And actually, Pa was wrong, because even if other people couldn’t take talent away from you, they could destroy your confidence with their negative comments and mess with your brain, so you didn’t know who you were any more or how to please anyone, least of all yourself.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“And never ever compare yourself to other artists. Whether they are better, or worse, it only leads to despair.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“And remember, someone once told me that life only throws at you what it feels you can deal with.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“And that the love of a parent for a child is the most powerful force on earth.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“And the part of me that was so like him realised that even the most outwardly self-assured humans were rendered vulnerable when it came to believing that the person they loved loved them back. And wanted them and needed them just as desperately.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“And then I kiss her, and feel her respond with equal fervour. And as I hear the music rising to a crescendo above us, I know for certain that our dance of life is only just beginning.”
Lucinda Riley
The Olive Tree
“And what’s wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”
Lucinda Riley
The Lavender Garden
“Anna felt suddenly as if all of her – physical, mental and emotional – was draining out and into this other unknown human being.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“Art should be visible to everyone,’ he had explained to me. ‘Because it is a soul gift from the painter. What must be hidden from the eyes of others is worthless.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“As every true artist knows, rules are there to be broken and barriers to be broken down. We only have one life, mademoiselle, and we must live it as we choose.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“As is always the way in fairy tales, bad has to happen as well as good. We human beings survive on hope that those good moments will come again.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“As she knew from the Sherlock Holmes books she had always loved, it was the attention to detail in circumstances like these that was important.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“As you well know, people choose to became a victim or a hero.”
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister
“At some point, you have to make the decision between losing the person you love and your own sanity.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“Brutally, I’d begun to realise that until one had experienced loss and deep pain oneself, it was impossible to truly empathise with others in the same predicament.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“Dirty pans were a sign that things were getting out of hand…”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
“Does that mean that they will all go to hell?’ she asked. ‘Because they don’t believe in the real God?’ ‘Is that what you think should happen to them, Mary?”
Lucinda Riley
The Missing Sister
“Each of us thinks that our own mistake is the worst, because we have made it. We all live with guilt for our actions, Maia. Especially if we have chosen to keep them inside us for as long as you have. I’m sitting here feeling only sadness for you, not disapproval. And I really think that anyone else who heard your story would feel the same. It’s only you who blames yourself.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“Emilie gazed across the terrace and the formal gardens to the undulating vineyards that surrounded”
Lucinda Riley
The Lavender Garden
“Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“Everyone else out there in the world knew who they were, they carried their histories inside them everywhere they went; whereas she was just an empty husk of nothing masquerading as a human being.”
Lucinda Riley
The Angel Tree
“Everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of the human learning curve, as long as you do learn from them”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“Everything has its natural balance, and how would you know you were happy it you weren’t sad sometimes? Or feel healthy if you were never ill?”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“Fear is the most powerful enemy human beings face, and your lack of it is the greatest gift that God has bestowed on you.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“Feelings I had for him had emerged suddenly, like the tight bud of a rose that blossoms magically overnight into a glorious colour.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
“He could reason and manipulate like a seasoned politician and then, on the turn of a sixpence, slip back into his chronological age and become a child again.”
Lucinda Riley
The Olive Tree
“Humans rarely look back to the past, until they have made the same mistake!”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads – that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales – the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living – will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“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
“I knew that, although my life had been shaped by events out of my control, it was I who had chosen to react to them in the way I had”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“I like spoiling him sometimes.”
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 will miss you very much, but those with wings are not made to be locked up in a cage, If you love them you have to let them free to turn around.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“I wish that you will find love. It is the only thing in life that makes the pain of being alive bearable. Please remember that.” (Lucinda Riley Quotes)
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“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
The Olive Tree
“I’d Like to See
Lucinda Riley
I’d like to see the red
Of the roses in full bloom.
I’d like to see the silver
Of sun’s reflection on the moon.
I’d like to see the blue
Of the ocean when it’s roaring.
I’d like to see the brown
Of the eagle when it’s soaring.
I’d like to see the purple
Of grapes hanging on the vine.
I’d like to see the yellow
Of the sun in summertime.
I’d like to see the russet
Of the chestnuts on the tree.
I’d like to see the faces
Of those that smile at me.”
The Lavender Garden
“If living in Australia had taught her anything, it was that human life was fragile; nature was in charge and cared not a jot for the havoc it wreaked on those who populated its earth.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“If she had learned one thing from both her past and her present, it was that life did not provide second chances. It asked you, begged you, to go out and grab what was an offer, to recognize the good and try to discard the bad.”
Lucinda Riley
The Lavender Garden
“In moments of weakness, you will find your greatest strength.”
Lucinda Riley
The Storm Sister
“It makes me into someone who tries to be a good person, but I fail more than I can. I understand it’s not wrong to fail as long as you keep trying.”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun 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
“It’s a bit like running a marathon, isn’t it? It’s only when you reach the finish line that you have time to collapse.”
Lucinda Riley
The Angel Tree
“It’s amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“Keep your feet on the fresh carpet of the earth, but raise your mind to the windows of the universe.”
Lucinda Riley
The Moon Sister
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
“Life did not provide second chances. It asked you, begged you, to go out and grab what was on offer, to recognise the good and try to discard the bad.”
Lucinda Riley
The Lavender Garden
“Life is too short for hatred and bigotry. When you find something good, seize it with both hands.”
Lucinda Riley
The Lavender Garden
“Love is both the most selfish and unselfish emotion in the world, Celaeno, and its two facets cannot be separated. The need in oneself battles against the wish for the loved one to be happy.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“Love knows not distance; It hath no continent; Its eyes are for the stars.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“My father always said that to push a rock an inch in a lifetime was the same as throwing a hundred pebbles into the sea every day. Big change comes slowly, but it will come”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“Needed to be nurtured carefully from the start of its life. And if it was, it would eventually grow strong and last for years to come.”
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister
“Negative thought brings negative action.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“Never let fear decide your destiny.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“Nothing in nature was safe, I mused, not even humans – the self-fashioned masters of the earth: with all our arrogance, we believed ourselves to be invincible. Yet I’d seen countless times how one mighty puff of wind from the gods in their heavens could wipe out thousands of us at a blow during tornados and hurricanes.”
Lucinda Riley
The Moon Sister
“Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal.”
Lucinda Riley
The Italian Girl
“Now the concern was not so much to do with keeping one’s body warm through a long winter, but what designer label one should wear to do the job. These days, few women in Western society had to kiss their husbands good-bye not knowing when or if they would see them again, as they went off to fight. The bottom line was they were past the business of simple survival.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“Our mistakes seem more terrible to us than those of others, because we do not forgive ourselves for having committed them. This is how guilt haunts us.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“Paradise
Lucinda Riley
A glowing dawn, a sweet, ripe peach,
A blue sea lapping on the beach.
A hint of spring, a dewy rose
Whose scent assails an eager nose.
Beauty now at every sight.
A feast for senses to delight.
A darkened cell, the fear of night,
A mistral blows with all its might.
A winter’s chill in barren land,
The bitter cold through frozen hand.
Beauty now has closed its door.
And swept away for distant shore.
A touch of cheek, a lingered kiss
So soft remembered, soon to miss.
A tender arm around me thrown,
The beauty of a heart’s true home.
In black despair, a shooting star,
For Paradise is where you are.”
The Lavender Garden
“People have asked me why I seem to have no fear. It’s apparently that which stops so many people from doing what they need to make their life happier. Well, I don’t really have the answer, but maybe if one isn’t afraid of ghosts or, if fact, death itself, which is the worst thing that can happen to a human being, there isn’t much else left to be frightened of.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“Physical comfort-materialism, if you like-is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we’re warm and well fed, our souls can be empty and we still make it through the day. And as I’ve discovered recently, it is the greatest poverty of all.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“Remember that panic stifles your instincts and makes you blind.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“Remember,even if we can’t see them, those we love are always with us.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“So many humans wandered round in circles, wishing for a future they were too fearful to seize.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“So much depends on our expectations of what our life should be. The less you expect, the more content you are.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“Surely such a pure, perfect sound could not be coming from the skinny little girl in the dreadful pink dress? But as he watched Rosanna, he no longer saw her sallow skin, or the way she seemed to be all arms and legs. Instead, he saw her huge, expressive brown eyes and noticed a hint of colour appear in her cheeks as her exquisite voice soared to a crescendo.” (Lucinda Riley Quotes)
Lucinda Riley
The Italian Girl
“That every living thing needed to be nurtured carefully from the start of its life. And if it was, it would eventually grow strong and last for years to come.”
Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister
“That there are all kinds of love, and it arrives in different shapes and forms. It can be earned, but not paid for. It can be given, but never bought. And once it’s truly there, it holds fast. This love thing.”
Lucinda Riley
The Olive Tree
“The noise and the shouting made her break out into a cold sweat, and feeling faint, she darted to stand in the shade of an impossibly tall building. She asked a passing older man with dark skin, whom she took for one of her own, where she could find the Barrio Chino. The man spoke Catalan, but at least he waved in the direction of the sea, which was where María decided she should head”
Lucinda Riley
The Moon Sister
“The problem with artists is that they are in love with the idea of being in love.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“The young are irritated by stories of the past; they wish to live only in the present, just as I did when I was their age.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“Then I closed my eyes and visualised a human heart beating. I watched it expand as it encompassed all the new people that I loved. And I understood that the heart had an infinite capacity to extend itself. And the fuller it was, the more healthily and happily it beat inside you.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“There should always be a balance in life, and you must try to find that in yours. Then you might find the happiness you seek.”
Lucinda Riley
The Midnight Rose
“Thought about how, depending where you were on the earth, your particular strengths and weaknesses were either positives or negatives.”
Lucinda Riley
The Pearl Sister
“Thoughtfully before replying. ‘I’m sure you did.”
Lucinda Riley
The Missing Sister
“We all make decisions as though we will live forever.”
Lucinda Riley
The Girl on the Cliff
“We are uprooted. We no longer have the feeling that we belong somewhere or belong to anyone. It must be one of the drawbacks of globalization.”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
“Well, dreams take time to come true and even then, they’re not always in the places we expect to find them. I suppose we have to be patient and concentrate on what we have today.”
Lucinda Riley
The Moon Sister
“When something has to happen, time doesn’t matter”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
“When you trust your instincts, they’re often proved right.”
Lucinda Riley
The Seven Sisters
“You have to work out who is important to you, and to hold fast to them. You have to do whatever it takes to make yourself and those you love happy, because before you know it, your life could be over.”
Lucinda Riley
The Sun Sister
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