A Brief History of Montmaray

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society

When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon.

If all women were as frail as men seem to believe, the human race would have died out millennia ago.

For are any of us non-believers at moments of despair?

Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings.

For we carry what we love inside us, always.