I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived

You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.