In the Shadow of Vesuvius Quotes

“Perhaps it was a lost opportunity. There’s always a special thrill to the forbidden, or so they say.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“All thinking people are in constant need of more books.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“curse Lady Emily Hargreaves and her life and mind and memory and liver and lungs mixed up together, and her words, thoughts and memory; thus may she be unable to speak what things are concealed, nor be able to communicate anything she finds. I bind her tongue,”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“Had you been born in a society that treated women as the equals of men, it would never occur to you that Miss Carter shouldn’t lead a dig or that men would balk at her orders.” “We have free will, but we are not free from original sin,” Mr. Taylor said.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“he would not love her, not with the sort of passion to be found in the myths of old. Marriage was about duty and loyalty. Love was something else altogether.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“Built in the early days after the Romans colonized Campania, the structure was vastly older than Rome’s famous Coliseum.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“Mors ultima linea rerum est. Death is everything’s final limit.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“Manibus date lilia plenis. Give lilies with full hands.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius