The Shadow of the Lynx Quotes

“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“It will be a compromise, but that's what the marriage often is”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won't succeed.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“It's an offense of majesty to love Olympic gods like common mortals. Shouldn't they be just worshiped?”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“You spent your lie preparing revenge. You should've spent it seeking happiness.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“Plants won't wither if we always water them. So it's, also, with the memories. It's good, when they're pleasant, but if they aren't, then it's madness.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“A man is proud until he falls.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx