Quotes from Anya Seton

you should be proud of your enchantments!

In after years Miranda knew that her first sight of Dragonwyck was the most vivid and significant impression of her life. She stared at the fantastic silhouette which loomed dark against the eastern sky, the spires and gables and chimneys dominated in the center by one high tower; and it was as though the good and evil, the happiness and tragedy, which she was to experience under that roof materialized into physical force and struck across the quiet river into her soul.

All brave things do good, even if we don't see it.

My lord - the Duke of Lancaster does not wed his paramour, and one of common stock - how could the King countenance this? Well, he has, said John dryly. Richard at present would countenance far more than that to please his eldest uncle and annoy his youngest one.

there was a man and a woman who came together naked and unashamed, proudly bestowing on each other the beauty of their bodies and thereby finding ineffable joy.

though she seemed made for the pleasures of the flesh, there yet was a sense of spiritual striving about her, and a healthiness of mind and body which pleased him who spent so much of his time with the

we must use a firm hand.

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so?

out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

One must never let one's little pleasures interfere with the really important affairs of life.

Lake Como, she said the little name to herself lingeringly. He had described a marble palace amongst cypress trees, had made her feel that she was there with him listening to the lap of the water, the singing of a nightingale, the love serenade of a boatman on the lake. Piangi, piangi fanciulla, he had sung for them the first line. She hadn't known that he could sing.

you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.

Wat was a man of action, and his mind darted to practical matters.

Yet though sorrow for the past could be quenched, dread of the future could not.

Richard looked at the bow-tips that twinkled in the sun, the arrows being slowly notched and pointing down the field at him. He flung his head back and dug the golden spurs of knighthood into his horse's flanks. He galloped straight towards the revel lines and shouted, So now I shall be your leader, as you wished me to!

I know it is so. What dear-bought treasured certainty that was.

Never be worth a damn till you do meet trouble and lick it.

thought what quiet treasures of the senses age brought in return for the passion it removed.

to be ME, Merewyn. These

They drove up Third Avenue so that they might see the famous Stuyvesant pear tree on the corner of Thirteenth Street. Again for the two hundredth time its ancient boughs were loaded with blossoms. How strange it was that it could go on renewing itself in exquisite youth, when the hands that had planted it had so long ago fallen to dust!

You cannot help it, chérie." Mirabelle's small greenish eyes fixed themselves kindly on Elizabeth. She nodded and shrugged. "You cannot help acting from what you were taught in childhood, even though you don't want to. Above all this is true for a woman.

Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...

Naš Gospodin nije rekao da ne?emo biti izloženi olujama i jadima, ili da ne?emo doživljavati nesre?e, nego je rekao: Sve to ne?e te nadja?ati!