The Highlander's Excellent Adventure Quotes

“Don’t be difficult.” That was the wrong thing to say.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure

“Catarina always said skill and talent were better than status because with skill and talent one could not only create beautiful things but earn money from the sale of those things. Status only bought one respect, and one could not fill an empty belly with respect.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure

“But all my life she has tried to change me, to make me thinner, prettier, more like the daughter she wishes I had been. I do not want to live the rest of my life trying to change myself to make someone else happy.” She’d never actually put her feelings into words before, but as she did, it all became so clear. She wanted to be loved for who she was.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure

“Ines had seen too many girls in her shop heartbroken because they’d fallen in love with men who did not love them back. She’d seen a number of babies born as well due to men’s lies about love and women’s willingness to believe them.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure

“Then she would eat what she liked, wear what she liked, and no one would tell her she had the body of a strumpet and had better take care not to look like one. She almost laughed. Some strumpet she was, considering she spent most of her evenings standing or sitting by a wall while other ladies danced or mingled.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure

“Why should she starve and suffer in too-tight underclothing because her mother wanted her to look a certain way? Emmeline liked her body as it was.”
― Shana Galen, The Highlander's Excellent Adventure