“I can never look at a bird without thinking of you," he said. "I wonder what you will do with your wings once you have found them. I wonder how far away they will take you. And I fear them, for my sake, at the same time that I hope for them, for yours.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I know my heart. It has always been yours, Kate. Always.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“You are brave and loyal and true. You have such a good heart." He held my hand close to his chest and covered it with his other hand. "It is only afraid. But I would take such good care of it, love, if you would give it to me.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“...we'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“A man does not need encouragement to lose his heart.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“Kate," he whispered, stepping closer to me, "you are not like your mother. You are a different creature from your sisters. The depths of your soul are fathomless. You are brave and loyal and true. You have such a good heart." he held my hand close to his chest and covered it with his other hand. "It is only afraid. But I would take such good care of it, love, if you would give it to me." He bent his head and pressed his lips to my fingers.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“Henry lifted his head and looked directly at me. I froze where I stood, feeling as if he had just told me a secret with that look. It was new . It was a question and a statement and a quick, hidden secret all at once..”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I feel caged. Always. I feel like I am this bird, trapped and stifled and caged, and I keep looking for a way to escape, but I am barred at every turn.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“You needn't believe in something for it to be real, miss”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I think of marriage differently. A Companionship of like minds. A tie that binds, yes, but in the binding comes strength. A lifetime with your dearest friend as your truest and best companion. That is what it can be. I believe that.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love. And I love this, Kate, more than I love anything else. It is beyond beautiful to me. It is home. It is..." He paused, and squinted a little, as if looking into the sun, but his gaze stayed steady on me. "It is the sight I want to see every day, for the rest of my life.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“Now you also know what it is to be wanted and loved.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“There are some favors that can’t be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“I felt a crack in my defenses—a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“—Creo que la belleza más profunda se encuentra en lo que nuestro corazón ama —confesó”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
“soon enough” had grown old years ago, that “at length” was sick and frail, that “finally” was a dying breath”
― Julianne Donaldson, quote from Blackmoore
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“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time
“The abbot told me once that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide it rather than accept yourself for who you really are. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him as his reputation. In the end, who is the braver? The man who dies rather than be thought of as a coward or the man who lives willing to face who he really is?”
― Michael J. Sullivan, quote from The Crown Conspiracy
“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal.”
― Iris Murdoch, quote from The Sea, the Sea
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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