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“Jerott?’ said Lymond. ‘What are you not saying?’ His eyes, as the orderly cavalcade paced through the muddy streets, had not left that forceful aquiline face since they met. And Jerott, Philippa saw with disbelief, flushed. For a moment longer, the strict blue eyes studied him; and then Lymond laughed. ‘She’s an eighteen-year-old blonde of doubtful virginity? Or more frightful still, an eighteen-year-old blonde of unstained innocence? I shall control my impulses, Jerott, I promise you. I’m only going to throw her out if she looks like a troublemaker, or else so bloody helpless that we’ll lose lives looking after her. Not everyone,’ he said, in a wheeling turn which caught Philippa straining cravenly to hear, ‘is one of Nature’s Marco Polos like the Somerville offspring.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

“There was a silence. 'You didn't as,' said Jerott at length. 'But I would have forgone even the body for the sake of the mind. And I would have claimed neither body nor mind, had I discovered a soul.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

“I have learned,’ said Lymond, ‘that kindness without love is no kindness.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Pawn in Frankincense

“If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Violence in nature is one thing, but among civilized mankind, what excuse is there?”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“The darts which make me suffer are my own.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
― Dorothy Dunnett

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“It was a piece of advice only, and aimed at myself as much, I suppose, as at you.—For those of easy tongues, she said. Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the noblest and most terrible power we possess is the power we have, each of us, over the chance-met, the stranger, the passer-by outside your life and your kin. Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“Go away and bleed to death,’ said his onetime saviour sharply. ‘On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“Time just gets away from us.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“There is a terrible pain,” she said softly, “about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale