He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
England.
Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.
Dear god, I am only twenty seven, my cause is defeated, my husband is dead. am I to be one of the poor widows who will spend the rest of their days at someone else`s fireside trying to be a good guest...
When you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him...
Thinking
Think of his cupping my mother’s cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.
Eager
You just decide. Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and walk towards it. Remember - anything you fear, you...
When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner f...
We have been married little more than a year and already there is a terrible silence around some subjects. We never speak of the disappearance of my brothers—a stranger listening to us would think it...
We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge.
Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.
To assure someone that if enough nuns sing enough Masses then her dead child will go to heaven is trickery as low as passing a false coin as good. To buy a pardon from the pope, to force the pope to a...
The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
Tal vez hay un Dios que es como la luz del fuego, pero todo lo que podemos ver son las sombras que nosotros mismos proyectamos cuando caminamos frente al fuego. Entonces vemos grandes sombras moviéndo...
Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!
She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.''You told me to risk i...
She dropped to the stool before the little looking glass, rested her head on her hands and stared at herself. He’s in love with me, she said. He’s mad for me. I spend all my time bringing him close an...