Quotes from Mary Jo Putney

If only I could start again, I would do everything differently. I would try to win your love through kindness rather than compel it by force, and if I failed, I would accept your will and wish you joy on your own path.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Though working in the kitchen is soothing, I'm glad I don't have to cook all the time. Then it would be work.

Then he gestured with his pistol for her to

Perhaps the soul wasn't a foundation but a mosaic composed of myriad small insights and transcendental moments.

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed—but it's a beginning.

Hoshan I experienced profound spiritual awareness," he said slowly. "It began with a devastating recognition of my failures and shortcomings. Only when all my pride and arrogance had been stripped away did I experience divine compassion so infinite that it could forgive all my weaknesses and fill me with light.

As the next car in the line pulled up, he sent a last yearning glance after Kate, wanting to imprint that laughing image on his mind forever. Girls like her were not for guys like him, who parked cars and worked construction to earn college money. His imagination hadn't been good enough to guess the way the night would end. But that was then, and this

As Paracelsus said, 'Dose alone makes a poison.'" The

That's either powerfully romantic

I see why they call you Lady Alys," he said with a mocking humor. "Managing an estate, several businesses, and children as well. You are an extraordinary woman." "Most women are extraordinary. It compensates for the fact that most men aren't".

Clare's dark brows arched. "How can one piece of wood be more moral than another?" "The mace saves a lady from bending over and exposing her ankles to whatever depraved males are present," he explained.

Things have been going wrong for years. Only desperation could have driven me to seek the aid of a reprobate like you." Seeing the mischievous gleam in her eyes, he said promptly, "At least that is turning out well. Look at the splendid opportunity for Christian martyrdom that I'm giving you.

older children seldom paid much attention to younger ones. The reverse was not true.

It's a poor sort of man who will kick his own dog." "Don't worry about it. It's pretty clear that you're forgiven.

Lady Alys, you have dimples," he said accusingly. Caught, Alys blushed. "I'm sorry, I can't help it. I think God made a mistake and gave me someone else's dimples.

Joseph Campbell said that love is the burning point—the stronger the love, the greater the pain. If he's right, maybe we're better off without it.

Lie back and enjoy, Clarissima. Last night was a synopsis. Now it's time for the unabridged version.

Listen to the wind. Hear the stones, taste the moonlight. Feel the spirit of the trees and flowers and creatures that share the night with us. They were the same words that her mother had used when teaching her to appreciate the world when she was a small child.

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous sonnet. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

Tragedy is simpler than uncertainty. Not easier, but simpler.

Inferior people often despise those who are different," Adam said calmly. "It's the only way they can feel superior.

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