"And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestioning..."
- Winston Graham
"I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in men’s minds, perhaps fro..."
"But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction..."
"Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not–untender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we ..."
"Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious."
"It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do."
"Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish."
"Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand."
"Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better."
"I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas."