SamuraiKitty

“One knows, when all one’s life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate

“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

“My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate

“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