Quotes from Kathleen Baldwin

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That's the nature of art.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it. Some will hate it. That's the nature of art.

And I learned all those many years ago to stop listening to what people said, and listen instead to what they mean. Some people speak with honey and intend to serve us poison. You, my lord, speak with thorns but yearn for cake.

Hatred and anger are not the opposites of love, Tess. They are backsides of the same playing cards. It is easier to flip hostile feelings over and find the love and forgiveness that have been hidden there all along, aching to be found, than it is to produce new feelings.

There is a language every sister knows, a language tender beyond words and rarely spoken. It runs like a string between two hearts, and we only pluck that string in times of trouble. This night [...] we speak as sisters.

You're here because you're odd. Exceptional Unrelenting, Jane followed me to the edge of the circle. "You're unusual, Georgiana. And that is far more dangerous than any fire."

For the first time, she felt proud to lay claim to her gender. Perhaps men had life easier. But they would never know this. They would never walk the shadow lands of pain and death to be part of the miracle of life.

You say it's too late . In my opinion, only a thimbleful of situations in life are that dire. Death begins and ends that list. Everything else is simply an obstacle that must be dealt with.

the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805

Joy means so much more when shared with you.

Even if I were half dead, drugged to the gills, deaf, dumb, and blind, I would know you were here. How can you expect me to rest when you arouse such madness in me?

Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise.

Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocketful Of Lies

I wasn't certain Sebastian's teasing was the same. It felt different somehow. Sera clarified, "That's the way men are." Jane

troubles. Lord Ransley had enough courage and

I've watched the seconds pat and nurse Their man; and seen him put to bed; With twenty guineas in his purse, And not an eye within his head. —J.H. Reynolds, The Fancy

I picked up a small square shortbread biscuit and stared at it, noting the uneven angles, wishing it were a perfect square, but it was, after all, merely a baked good, and baked goods did not ordinarily form perfect squares.

Troubles that lurk in the darkness of our own thoughts often feel gigantic. It's not until we expose these shadowy monsters to the light, by telling our friends, that they shrivel to a more manageable size. Whatever your problem is, you'll not be free of it by hiding.

of unsuitable places.

Make no mistake about it, I do not harbor ill will. My ship of ill will rides boldly across a sea of anger in glorious billowing full sail. "Forgiveness can bring peace.

Then what is the opposite of love?" Because whatever that is, that's what I feel for Daneska. "Indifference.

Dreams are just dreams until they change everything.

They Sailed Away In A Silver Cup Upon A Grassy Sea