Tremaine's True Love Quotes

“How lovely, to meet a man who helped rather than fussed and scolded.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“St. Michael glanced up from his epistle. “She’s very dear, also brave, maybe too brave.” He might have asked George to name his seconds in the same tone, so fierce was Nita’s newly acquired champion shepherd boy.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“I wish you had taught me a few verses of that song, the one about Mr. Burns’s philosophy.” Nita wished this more dearly than she wished to study German medical treatises on surgical procedures.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“Mr. St. Michael stroked Nita’s hair, another invitation to relax, to be safe and warm. “One doesn’t admit to praying for sheep.” One just had, perhaps even two.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“In the absence of any real authority over her own person, a woman benefited from having a bit of guile.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“The greatest plague ever to bedevil mortal man, the greatest threat to his peace, the most fiendish source of undeserved humility is his sister, and spinster sisters are the worst of a bad lot.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“In Nita's experience, the best intelligence officers in any big family were found among the younger siblings. They began their careers while small, nonthreatening, and unobtrusive. By adolescence, they developed formidable powers of observation and recollection, to say nothing of an ability to lurk at keyholes and befriend the servants.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love

“honorable, Bernita mine. To look after those who can’t look after themselves, to attend to duty rather than convenience. You have reminded me of what honor requires, and I’m grateful.” That last word—grateful—wasn’t one Nita heard very often.”
― Grace Burrowes, Tremaine's True Love