You should be proud of your enchantments!
There was indeed fear in hoping
The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel...
Naš Gospodin nije rekao da nećemo biti izloženi olujama i jadima, ili da nećemo doživljavati nesreće, nego je rekao: Sve to neće te nadjačati!
I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone’s selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.
Most unhappiness springs from conflict or grief
The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone
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.
All cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.
If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?
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.
My lord - the Duke of Lancaster does not wed his paramour, and one of common stock - how could the King countenance this?Well, he has, said John dryly. Richard at present would countenance far more th...
Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she was damned.
He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed at last, it was not because her body was weak but because her mind was c...
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.
Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he had never quite realised it until now.Glory had passed him by; fame too perhaps would not endure; i...
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...
I have of sorrow so great wound That joy get I never none, Now that I see my lady bright, That I have loved with all my might, Is from me dead, and is agone. Alas, Death, what aileth thee, That thou s...
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.