Sharon Kay Penman: Quotes about time

Sharon Kay Penman is American historical novelist. Explore interesting quotes on time.
Sharon Kay Penman: 36 quotes1 like

“I should like to freeze in time all those I do love… Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!”

Sharon Kay Penman

“We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?”

Sharon Kay Penman book The Sunne in Splendour

Source: The Sunne in Splendour

“For every wound, the ointment of time.”

Sharon Kay Penman book When Christ and His Saints Slept

Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept

“Joanna (Lady of Wales): Mama… why do I not look like you? Why do I have hair black like a crow?
Clemence: Because you take after him. That was all I asked of God, that I need not see him each time I looked into your face. Little enough to ask, I should think. But we do pay and pay for our sins, it seems, and you grow more like him with each day that passes.”

Sharon Kay Penman book Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons (1985), Book 1

“Eleanor: I'm tired, John, am asking you to keep this charade mercifully brief… for my sake if not for your own.
John: For your sake? There was a time when I'd have done anything on God's Earth for you, just to get to acknowledge I was even alive! But now? You're too late, Mother, years too late!”

Sharon Kay Penman book Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons (1985), Book 1