Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle

"Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile."

Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle

"And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms."

Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle

"Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?"

Catherine Cookson, The Black Candle