Quotes from Karen Harper

Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?

The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.

He would almost call this feeling for jeannette hate, if he were not so afraid it was love.

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God.

Evil to him who evil thinks,....

I swear, I'm gonna have to lock you up. I'd chain you to my bed, except I'm seldom in it.

He walked ahead and opened the police station door for the mayor. The office was deserted. Tess was going to help fill Ann's daytime shift tomorrow until he could hire someone else, but that was the last thing on his list of things to do right now.

I can do this, I told myself. Somehow, I will survive and thrive.

slowly, "You care too much, Will. Do not let His Grace

Staff silenced her with a hot kiss. "Hush," he whispered, taking her closer into his arms. "Mary, we have waited long enough. I want you, dearest, to make up for the lonely hours, and countless advice, and worry that your kings and cursed father would totally ruin our life together. And for the wasted years. Tonight, Mary, we are going to begin catching up-and it will take a long, long time for us to be even...

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says." "Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark." "But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

Tell me what you want, my love," he rasped through parted lips. "Tell me now." "You, Staff, you. Forever and always. Please." "Only Staff?" "Yes, yes. Please, my love. Put out the fire." "But first I have to fan it brighter," he said low, and moved into her instantly.

At the door Queen Phillipa turned slowly back. "Love," she repeated, her face suddenly gone girlishly soft before it turned to pale marble again. "Love fades, poor Joan, and then there is only duty and remembrance.

I am glad you appreciate the past. History helps make the present

Tradition, indeed, but the present is built on the past.

The beauty here was luring but deceptive.

So I am of Father's blood, but not yours?" "You are of his blood and of my heart, and what could matter more than that?

We love you, our angel, and always will," Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as "the Benjamins." After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father's and Rachel's children and had many older half brothers.

You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother

Whatever our position in life, we can make the best of it.

there may come a time when you must go on, be strong without a friend until you can make new ones, stand on your own.

One thing I have learned from Mama is to fight for what I want