Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.
Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
Always we live on islands of one kind or another
A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.
You’re in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.
I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back
Fear, the devil’s holy water
Bir kalbin var. dedi bir iç çekişle. Benimki soldu ve öldü.
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
Truly a wife is God’s gift.
Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.
He wasn't strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself
One must never let one’s little pleasures interfere with the really important affairs of life.
Naš Gospodin nije rekao da nećemo biti izloženi olujama i jadima, ili da nećemo doživljavati nesreće, nego je rekao: Sve to neće te nadjačati!
If no love is, ah God, what feel I so?
Self-preservation is the first and strongest law of nature
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.