Quotes from Anya Seton

The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel, and rumbles ever with a sound of rumors, while the goddess of fame is as false and capricious as her sister—Fortune.

Bir kalbin var." dedi bir iç çekiÅŸle. "Benimki soldu ve öldü.

Even the Bible admitted that the world was full of mystery and beauty and golden perfumed luxury.

I am made of cobweb that tears at a touch. But you, Bess, have fiber like the great seines that seldom break no matter their burden,yet if they do they can be mended again and again.

There's a fire been lit that's not so easy to put out

all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.

Twas the moment deep When we are conscious of the secret dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green . . . Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where . . . She

How can he be so cruel to me at times—and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else

The knights were disgusted. They said that all that fiddle-faddle was well enough for saints, or might have been a thousand years ago, but the Lord Jesus would certainly be the first to command Christians to kill pagans. Rumon announced that he did not think so.

In jewels and brocades and a whirl of musk, Alice flounced triumphantly out of her chariot, her three little dogs frisking and barking after her. She raised her thickly painted face to the Duke.

Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.

She has something else - a great deal else, said Alice Perrers' soft laughing voice from the corner, and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won't be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision - and shall.

Look, bimba—In my country we have a—how you say?—a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare.—Loving, singing, eating—these are God's three gifts. You don' need more.

I admire the man's genius, I sense in his writings a strong kinship with my own mind; they have a macabre quality, a voluptuous flavor of mystery and evil which attracts me strongly.

The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone

A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.

But I'm not repentant!" The Duke's voice rose suddenly high and passionate. "I love the woman—she is my life—all my bliss.

I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.

They had dismounted, laughing, amorous, and Katherine on finding a fairy ring of mushrooms in the grove had cried that by means of this enchantment on Midsummer Eve she would bind her love to her for ever, so that he might never once leave her side.

Self-preservation is the first and strongest law of nature

most unhappiness springs from conflict or grief

Always we live on islands of one kind or another

God's will usually seemed to coincide with her father's, and against this partnership there was no hope of appeal.

You've read some of my stuff?" he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, " 'The Raven,' I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.