The King's Messenger Quotes

“But wait. For when the sun has disappeared, its dying gift, on leaving us, is to make all that it has touched more beautiful than it had been before, that we may know the sun was here, and hold its memory till we meet with it again.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“Happy endings are of little comfort,” Logan told me, very sure, “to characters who die afore the tale is done.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“If we do not take the chances we are given, they will go, and we will go, and not return.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“Marcus Aurelius felt that what mattered in life was to keep your words true, your thoughts honorable, and your actions good.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“with child, you know. This makes”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“But as we started southward, I was thinking of those eyes. They rose unbidden in my mind.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“Sometimes expensive things were like that – potent, and yet passing.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“The thing with wine, my dear, is one cup washes down your sorrows, but too many cups will flood your mind and float your demons up from their dark prisons to torment you.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“words, once spoken, could not be called back again.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger