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...
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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.
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not tea...
When I was nineteen, she said, I was in love with being in love, I think. And I was given no chance to discover how deep - or not deep - that love would have gone.
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...
The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?
Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
Some things, she said, are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
She had held her life to an even keel by killing all deep feeling, by living upon the surface of life.
One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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...
Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.
My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it on...
He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.But which half did they mean?
Studied its architecture and intricate decoration