The Master of Heathcrest Hall Quotes

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly now, as if testing the word. And she replied, Dashton. Then their hands parted, but only so they might come closer, like two trees twining together to stand as one in a forest of green.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Ivoleyn is the most beautiful and remarkable woman in all of Altania, he said, his throat so tight the words inflicted a pain upon him, but he forged on all the same. I admire and love her to the fullest extent I am capable. I have ever since meeting her, though I was too stupid to understand at first what it was I felt. And once I did, I was too cowardly to make as stand for it.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves?”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“You know, Mr. Rafferdy, a picture is very nice to look at...yet in the end, it is far better to see a place for yourself, don't you think? For no matter how well a picture is painted or a scene is described, you can't really know what something is truly like, not unless you go there yourself.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Was it worth giving up anything in order to survive, no matter how precious it was? What if you gave up so much of yourself that there was nothing left of who you truly were.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“An eye will tend to behold what its owner expects to see.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“I learned that sometimes you must be willing to lose something precious to you in order to escape and to endure - that no matter how unthinkable it might seem to make such sacrifice, all the same it must be done so that you may persist.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Sometimes a truth is so precious that it cannot be disowned.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“Ever you retreat from others rather than risk discovering they hold you in poor esteem. Yet by that, you also fail to learn how often you are adored. When a man chooses to risk himself, Mr. Rafferdy, he may indeed have his fingers nipped. But he may reap great rewards as well.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“It is an odd fact that certain words will leap at one out of a jumble of voices. Once such a thing is heard, the listener will naturally focus upon the conversation, and so hear everything that would have previously gone unnoticed.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall

“It is often the case that matters less important but more pressing distracts us from the things that press less upon us but are far more important.”
― Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall