The author of the best selling Languedoc Trilogy, Kate Mosse was born in Chichester on the 20th October 1961. An English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster she attended New College, Oxford where she attained a BA (Hons) in English going on to work for Hodder & Stoughton, then Century, and finally as an editorial director at Hutchinson, part of the Random House Group.
In the early 90s Kate left Random House to focus on her writing and to set up a new literary prize (the annual Women’s Prize for Fiction (WPF) which is now known as the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction) and after moderate success with Becoming A Mother and The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden two nonfiction books, she finally achieved worldwide success with the first book of her Languedoc Trilogy, Labyrinth which was published in 2005 which has sold millions of copies and been translated into 37 languages.
“History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.”
“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”
“There’s no black and no white, just shades of grey…But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”
“Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.”
“If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.”
“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
“For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.”
“Love – true love – is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”
“The human spirit can withstand much, but once broken, it crumbles like dust.”
Such wonderful words from an excellent author and if these quotes from Kate Mosse have you curious as to what her books are like why not start out with the first of her best selling trilogy.
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