The Secrets of Wishtide Quotes

“I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.”
― kate saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“he prayed with them up to the very gallows if he could. ‘It’s the duty of any half-decent clergyman to walk into Hell itself,’ he used to say. ‘We’re needed most where God is least.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I know how it feels to have a comfortable world suddenly turn against you,’ I replied. ‘My husband died, and poverty made my sorrow ten times”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing?”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“The secret of my mincemeat was handed down to me by my dear mother. In a word, suet.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“(People don’t seem to make Smoking Bishop nowadays: it’s a fragrant concoction of red wine, port wine and spices, and my beloved Matt was very fond of a glass directly after a chilly Matins; you must first stick a lemon with cloves and sugar-lumps, roast it beside a medium fire until caramelized, then place in your pan of wine to simmer gently for twenty minutes.)”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“The housekeeper, Mrs Craik, came”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide: The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries 1

“but some conventions cannot”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide: The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries 1