Mills&Boonwriters are seriously
under-rated.
First of all, there's nothing trashy
about romance, as Robin Williams said in the marvellous Fisher King.
Second, sometimes, it's these authors
who have the most ringing lines you'll come across.
Take Jane Donnelly where a character
asks a woman what it was like afterwards, after her husband died. The
answer: “There was no afterwards.”
Or Robyn Donald where a man says of the
time spent without the woman he loved, that it was “years and
years, all grey”.
Anyone who has understood what it's
like to live in a bubble of time where you can see all the roads not
taken and cannot break through because it's too late, will recognize
this kind of sorrow only too well.
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