Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.
Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
One cannot live from one day into the next without changing. It is the nature of life. Small choices are always necessary even when large ones do not loom. I will change what I choose to change and re...
La felicidad es siempre algo pasajero, fugaz. Nunca es un estado permanente para nadie aun que muchos perseveramos en creer la tonta idea de que si ocurriera esto o aquello seríamos felices el resto d...
It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
He had not forgiven her and doubted that he ever would or could. And during his own brief visit to her and the meeting at last evening’s ball she had shown no sign of wishing forgiveness.
He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.
He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was in a sense the ultimate act of selfishness since it left behind untold and endless suffering for those...
Have you noticed,' she asked, straightening the counting frames to her liking before closing the cupboard doors and turning toward him, 'that at church when the clergyman is giving his sermon everyone...
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt a...
Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?
Constance had joined him at the breakfast
And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy? he said softly.Assuredly, she said, provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.
Pleasure
For a rest. Freyja uttered her peculiar derisive snort
Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?
Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe? Habit, he said. We are accustomed to it. I suppose if we had been blind from birth—in both eyes—and could suddenly see, we...
When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.
This was it. This was what she had longed for throughout the lonely years of her girlhood.Suddenly she felt lonelier than she had ever felt.And so excited she could barely breathe,Tresham stepped up b...