Richard looked at the bow-tips that twinkled in the sun, the arrows being slowly notched and pointing down the field at him. He flung his head back and dug the golden spurs of knighthood into his hors...
If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?
I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back
You’ve read some of my stuff? he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, ‘The Raven,’ I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
You’re in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
In that hushed hour between midnight and dawn when Morpheus’ sable hands touch the rosy finger tips of Aurora and even the fairies are slumbering on their flowery couches,
There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.
Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she surveyed her employer's strong dark profile in secret fro...
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
He wasn't strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself
Truly a wife is God’s gift.
Fear, the devil’s holy water
Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give h...
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...
But I’m not repentant! The Duke’s voice rose suddenly high and passionate. I love the woman—she is my life—all my bliss.
Bir kalbin var. dedi bir iç çekişle. Benimki soldu ve öldü.
Always we live on islands of one kind or another
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