Joanna looked down at
Jane
It's not you she hates, Schuyler. It's me. She just turned her anger outward because she couldn't bring herself to hate whom she loves.
It was the same way he looked that at her that night. When he asked her to stay. She gave him the same answer she had back then. No.
I was so afraid. I was afraid of losing you.Never, my love. We will always be together.
I thought I was going to lose you, she sent.Never. We shall never be separated.
I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have. -Schuyler
He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.
He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone.
For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.
Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
Before Evie could protest, Mal sighed. Of course there is. The party of the year. A real rager, didn’t you hear? Mal looked her up and down and shook her head sadly. Oh, I guess you didn’t hear. She m...
As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in her heart broke.
Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.
Silly man. I know the man I am marrying is destined for great things, as the many remarkable things he has done thus far have brought himto such a high oint already. Mark my words, Alex. You are a man...
Memories were tricky things…they weren’t stable. they changed with perception over time. …they shifted, and [she] understood how the passage of time affected them. the hard working striver might recal...
What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, General Schuyler added, is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.
This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours.
They would rampage up and down the island, terrorizing step-granddaughters and traumatizing even the most stalwart goons, and no one
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. —WILLA CATHER, MY ÁNTONIA