Santa Montefiore Books In Order (Full List)

"His adventures took him to the far corners of the earth where he was inspired by everything different and everything beautiful."

"I read a lot. I read everything. Novels, hundreds of novels. You learn a lot about human nature through literature."

"She looked at death and thought how unattractive the body was, even the body of a cat, once the spirit had departed."

"Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot."

"Now she is dead, her lips forever sealed, her breath taken by the wind, her words whispers that come to me in dreams."

"Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite."

"You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake."

"Unemployed, having quit the City after twenty years as a fund manager, making money with such dedication that making money had become an end in itself - a greedy, empty existence that gave him no satisfaction."

"The human spirit is a kaleidoscope of millions of tiny mirrors, reflecting a whole spectrum of colours, depending on where the light falls."

"It was as though she had died and now walked through paradise, for surely only heaven could be as beautiful as this?"

"Abandoned to the corrosion of time and weather, the pretty little folly remained benignly observant, confident that one day a great need would surely draw people to it as light to lost souls."

"Your life isn’t something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether."

"The sight of home momentarily uplifted him, like ascending out of shade into sunshine."

"In spite of the most terrible suffering, the heart goes on loving; that is the beauty of love."

"We’re not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience."

"There was nothing like losing something to make one value its worth."

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"The castle was everything an Italian castello should be: harmoniosuly proportioned with a crenulated roof, tall shuttered windows set beneath half-moon pediments, sandstone faded to a pale grey-yellow by centuries of burning summer sun and bitter winter winds."

"I ache to luxuriate in this sense of belonging, this sense of home, as if everything that has come before is but a dream and only this is real."

"He said every time you look at a sunset and feel an expansion in your chest, that’s the divine in you recognizing the divine in nature."

"The girl was no beauty, but Flappy was not looking for that. She was looking for efficiency, capability, honesty and obedience."

"I knew that to expect from death. I have always known. So when it came it did not frighten me or surprise me. It came as a friend, with its arms outstretched and its familiar face radiant with light and love, just as I knew it would."

"If there was one thing Flappy abhorred, it was people poking their noses into other people's business."