Quotes About Mary

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

I do hope you have not made it an impassioned speech, the duke said doubtfully. That would not be my style at all, you know.

Oh, I say, someone said enthusiastically, do I smell a wager?

It would be foolish to pretend boredom, she said with some scorn. Surely soon one would be bored in good earnest.

It is a long story, I'm afraid, sir. Yes, he agreed, they usually are.

For a timeless, frozen moment their eyes met. Blank disbelief, sudden recognition, and shock flashed across his face all within seconds.

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.

What had Robert said? Would he have sent any message for her? A message of regret, perhaps, like the very last words he had spoken to her? Would he perhaps have sent her a letter?

He looked windblown and out of breath and ... virile. What a horrid, shocking word. Where had that thought come from?

Don't skip school," Sharp cautioned. "The monsters love the girls that color outside the lines.

Paris?" said Maddy, interrupting my thoughts. "You get to go to Paris?

The man was a lunatic who somehow could tap into sanity when he looked her in the eye. What did that man make her? A human straightjacket?

death grip. Life grip was really a better way to describe it.

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Hope—cruelest of the evils that escaped Pandora's box—smiled on him gently all that summer.

I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni

Would you object to a civil ceremony?" "That would certainly be nicer than shouting abuse at one another," Gina replied, straight-faced

Demons especially enjoy metaphors.

War doesn't have a kingdom," she said. "War belongs to the whole world. Come on, my little scarlet Horseman. Have a drink.

Er is niets eenvoudigs aan de muziek van de Manoush. - Silvia

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.