I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Then you must understand that undressing you is like playing with one of those dolls. I open one to find another beneath it. I took away your gown to find you are still as clothed...

Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him

Yes, sometimes we must lose something…someone…before we realize its worth.

Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn’t look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.

How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might...

After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.

The only thing he was sorry for was slamming the door and perhaps raising his voice to the woman who’d been like a mother to him since the passing of his parents. Perhaps she hadn’t...

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

Just because we’re not firing cannons or riding horses doesn’t mean it won’t be fun.

Sometimes Hen…I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn’t have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he...

You strive all through your life, to get somewhere, to be something, Some One, to matter, to have this, to have that, fill up your life with possessions, bonds, connections and in the end, the...

She raised the shovel, ready to plunge it into the soft soil. “I am not afraid. I am not.””You should be.” A sinister, accented voice pierced her consciousness.The shovel fell from her nerveless fingers, thudding...

For all the largesse of my mind’s colony where a vividly enflamed man would take off each of the precious stones and melt away the cast, his success ultimately lay in being nice to me,...