Quotes from Margaret Landon

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Anna was convinced that the low level of literature and art in Siam was due to the fear that every talented person felt of being impounded into royal service if it became known that he had more than ordinary gifts.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

T)he motive consecrates the deed.

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!