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“He likely didn’t even think of himself that way. He simply was that way.”
― Lena Goldfinch, Sweet Briar Rose

“It will always be the duty of those who have the most to help those with the least. I did not earn my wealth. It is mine by birth. It blesses me so that I have the means of blessing others. The situation does not mean you are weak.”
― G.G. Vandagriff, The Baron and The Bluestocking

“I’ve found that God is more than enough, even in the direst of situations”
― Michelle Griep, Brentwood's Ward

“Of course God was listening—but that didn’t mean God would answer in an agreeable fashion.”
― Michelle Griep, Brentwood's Ward

“Marriage is a lifelong commitment. Do not run headlong through a door that will lock tight behind you, without first discovering what’s on the other side.”
― Michelle Griep, Brentwood's Ward

“You can see God at work in good circumstances or bad,” Margaret observed. “That is because he never leaves us or forsakes us.”
― Jennifer Delamere, A Lady Most Lovely

“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Aubrey Wynne, Earl of Sunderland

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” Jane Austen, Emma”
― Aubrey Wynne, Earl of Sunderland

“If I am the cornerstone, whatever you build will stand firm.”
― Karen Witemeyer, More Than Words Can Say

“A wounded animal will bite and claw,” she said to Mrs. Ogilvy. “And it often cannot tell friend from foe. One mustn’t judge such a creature too harshly.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Work of Art

“My precious Lord; My only hope; My Saviour, how I need You now.”
― Michelle Griep, The Captive Heart

“Then, when I was nice and safe and warm, I dissolved into tears. Suddenly the fear returned. I found myself trembling in front of the fire, with the woman’s arms around me, cradling me as though I were a baby. I wanted to stay forever safe and warm in her small arms that didn’t go half way around me. I also wanted to run away, and break into sobs, and do I hardly knew what.”
― Joan Smith, Rose Trelawney

“Odious people will always talk and make a to-do over nothing. It is always like that.”
― Joan Smith, Rose Trelawney

“We are to scatter seed. God will give the increase.”
― Karen Witemeyer, To Win Her Heart

“felt bitter, Percival, but I hated the feeling. I went to the only One who could help me. I had no idea how He would do it, but I trusted God could help”
― Anneliese Dalaba, The Marriage Maneuver

“I felt bitter, Percival, but I hated the feeling. I went to the only One who could help me. I had no idea how He would do it, but I trusted God could help me.”
― Anneliese Dalaba, The Marriage Maneuver

“you know, one never realises how much one has changed with the years. We carry an inward image of ourselves, I think, which remains forever the same.”
― Alice Chetwynd Ley, A Conformable Wife

“The more difficult the journey, the sweeter the reward.”
― Abigail Wilson, In the Shadow of Croft Towers

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:
but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
― Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride

“neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”
― Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride

“Happiness cannot be built on another,”
― Heather Chapman, A Provision for Love

“People can’t accept that they’re the only ones unhappy. They’re jealous, and waste their time trying to make others feel the same, when really they ought to put their energy into fixing their own problems.”
― Sally Britton, Engaging Sir Isaac

“I am convinced that only evil can come from a person who does not like cats.”
― Louise M. Gouge, A Lady of Quality

“​“I came to you all the way from Boston,” she cried. “With nothing but the goodness of my heart to give you and the experiences that make me, me. And you just tossed those things out to the wind as if what I had to offer was nothing.”
― Julia Ridgmont, A Home for Christmas

“because she did not suffer fools gladly and found the world unfortunately populated with a great many of them.”
― Jenny Hambly, Sophie

“no peace with Napoleon, that he was possessed of a thirst for power that could never be assuaged; our only hope lay in opposing him to the utmost.”
― Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Jewelled Snuff Box: Romance and intrigue in Georgian England

“God knows we need reminders from time to time. He wraps up a little blessing in a sound or a smell. A testament of his love.”
― Rachel Fordham, Yours Truly, Thomas

“Things go to ruin when those as knows the land and its people leave it be.”
― Jenny Hambly, Katherine

“It seems to me, considering oneself first-rate at anything is the best way to ensure you are not.”
― Elizabeth Johns, First Impressions

“If we refuse to cry, or mourn, or feel, then before too long, our souls would dry up. They would wither away and leave in their place a wide emptiness that cannot be filled. We would become not just broken, but ugly. And then we wouldn’t be able to feel anything at all.”
― Jessica Scarlett, A Lily in Disguise