Joan Quotes

“I promise Joan, with all my heart, to make you the happiest woman alive. I want to stop this moment in time and freeze it for eternity!'

‘No I beg of you don’t!’ I put a finger to his lips,
‘I thank you for your sentiments and I know you mean what you say right now, but... make no promises please, for your promise makes you my prisoner and I your gaoler.’
‘But...?’
‘No, I beseech you – please don’t make me your gaoler for you will come to resent me and I would hate that.”
― Carol M Mottershead, Joan: Put on a Happy Face: Dual-timeline historical fiction

“I promise Joan, with all my heart, to make you the happiest woman alive. I want to stop this moment in time and freeze it for eternity!

‘No I beg of you don’t!’ I put a finger to his lips,

‘I thank you for your sentiments and I know you mean what you say right now, but... make no promises please, for your promise makes you my prisoner and I your gaoler.”
― Carol M Mottershead, Joan: Put on a Happy Face: Dual-timeline historical fiction

“Before we were born, we are nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, we simply return to that nebulous state. We will become the raw material out of which new beings are fashioned. Will there be pain in this natural process? No! Pleasure..? No! Now, is there anything frightening in this? Certainly not! And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don't realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: there is only the sensation-less state of cosmic anonymity: therefore, the rule of life should be ... to enjoy oneself.” - thanks goes to Marquis de Sade”
― Carol M Mottershead, Joan: Put on a Happy Face: Dual-timeline historical fiction

“Everyone believes that I write the way I live, but seriously, you tell your wife Joan, does she think my wife could stand by and love me the way she does if that was how I treated her in my own life? I am a politician dear lady, I give people what they want, I am a philosopher, writer and a gentleman.”
― Carol M Mottershead, Joan: Put on a Happy Face: Dual-timeline historical fiction