A Rogue in Winter Quotes

“Pietr could easily imagine that the kitchen where she’d spent half the morning conjuring sweets was hers, and that he was hers too.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter

“My entire view of myself—a hopeless eccentric doomed to solitude, a burden on my family—changed because a man stopped by for tea. You thanked me for the damned tea and made it convincing. You might have said a few prayers, but mostly, Pietr Sorenson, you listened, and you did not judge.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter

“Missus and I get overwhelmed. So many weans and not enough coin. Then you find a way for them to earn a few pennies with the shoveling or weeding or sweeping. It’s not charity. It’s teaching them that hard work deserves a fair wage. That’s all they need, some pride and ingenuity.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter

“I am the vicar. I am given the sacred charge of looking out for the community’s wellbeing. Bleating off about Scripture isn’t always the best way to go about that. Spouting Scripture, in fact, can have the opposite effect.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter

“People who maintained an empty theater box while expecting the cobbler and his family to go hungry would wound Pietr’s heart.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter

“The very society Joy had been raised to value above all else wore a different aspect when viewed through the eyes of a man who took his honor seriously.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Rogue in Winter