The Step on the Stair Quotes

“Don't put it into words. Let us leave some things to be understood, not said.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“But Fate was in an impish mood that night.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“When you are that- when a woman is a guiding star to her husband- she may face the ills of life without fear, for the blessing of Heaven is upon her.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“I had feared to be presumptuous; of building up a fairyland out of dreams; of yielding to my imagination rather than to my good sense. And yet, deep down in some inner consciousness, a faint insidious hope had whispered to itself that if I showed myself worthy, perhaps-perhaps- And now perhaps had become reality, and all doubt and mistrust a vanished dream.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step on the Stair

“Together, we had fathomed its secret. Together, we had trod its strangely concealed stairway. The sense of an unseen presence which had shaken the hearts of many in traversing its halls was no longer a mystery; but the by-ways in life which the harassed soul must tread have their own hidden glooms and their own unexpectedness; and the echoes of steps we hear but cannot see, linger long in the consciousness and do not always end with the years. Should I brave them? Dare I brave them when something deep within me protested with an insistent, inexorable disclaimer?”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step on the Stair

“Oh the hunger in his stare!”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step on the Stair

“I am glad something happened to give you what you wanted.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“I tried to divert myself by reading, and I think my love for books which presently grew into a passion had its inception in that monotonous succession of day after day without a break in the suspense which held me like a hand upon my throat.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“A woman is a victim of her own emotions.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step on the Stair

“The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“Solitude! How do we picture it?
A man alone on a raft in the midst of a boundless sea. A figure against a graying sky, with chasms beneath and ice peaks above. Such a derelict between life and death I felt myself to be,”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“It must have been a very dreary smile and ironic in the extreme; for my heart was filled with bitterness and could express itself in no other way.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair

“It was no mere fancy. Fancy does not remold a man in a moment. Fancy has its ups and downs, its hot minutes and-its cold. This was a steady inspiration; an enlarge¬ ment of the soul such as I had hitherto been a stranger to, and which I knew then, as plainly as I do now, would serve to make my happiness or my misery as Fortune lent her aid or passed me coldly by.”
― Anna Katharine Green, The Step On The Stair