Ah, those eyes, he said. They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.
Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises, he said. Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise...
Having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this an...
What it was like to feel all alone in the world and had been willing to share with a near stranger what must have seemed like her shame at the time. Of course, Lady Overfield continued when Wren said...
Physical, mental, and financial collapse had had its roots in years of weakness and self-indulgence. Near financial ruin rarely came overnight.
Life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.
El matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.
When you believe in yourself, Anna, when you are in command of yourself, when nothing derogatory anyone says of you or to you has the power to arouse your anger or any desire to retaliate, people seem...
One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of an...
One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life.
Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to...
If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not des...
I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.
Estuve muerto durante diez años, mi amor, y me has devuelto la vida en sólo un año.
Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.
And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out t...
Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which i...
Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species
War often wounds the soul as deeply as it does the body, sometimes more so.
Unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf,