historical-fiction

If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always culminates in violence against the innocent.

Do you plan on marrying Charles?__he shook her head.__ood. I wouldn__ want to shoot him, but I would."... Finding Promise

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once.

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

She did not realise that there could be a joy - a spiritual ecstasy- in the touch of a certain man, or that she would long for his touch with all her being

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

And what she does not know, what nobody else knows but you, is that I have a special place where I go to be with her; my first, my only love.

It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

All of them. Fated to love in vain.

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?