Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isa...
For a moment our eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile underway, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only...
Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a ro...
If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
I am a queen she observes. It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.
I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
Insane, he says simply. Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.
Lechery? he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.Oh aye, most vile, I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.
It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks...
The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.
I told you, I don't want you riding with me.Which is why I waited, Frieze explained patiently. To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course...
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or ex...
You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and litt...
Nu vreau să mă gândesc la faptul de a fi o femeie care nu poate trăi în noua lume pe care o construiesc bărbații. Nu vreau să mă gândesc cum s-a ridicat Melusina din fântâna ei arteziană și s-a închis...
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