The Girl in the Gatehouse Quotes

“Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something?”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“This is how love should be, Mariah thought. Two honest people, forthright in their intentions, loving and protecting one another.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“Flogging will continue until morale improves.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“She could not look away. She was ensnared all over again, caught in the brambles and powerless to escape. “She thought of what her aunt had said, about the blackberry being a symbol of lowliness and remorse. She felt both of these emotions now, trapped as she was in a bramble of her own making.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“She trusted me, foolish girl! And I took advantage of that trust.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym used by God
when he does not wish to sign his work. – Anatole France”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse