“Tobie. Unless I'm giving off steam, behave normally. I remember what to do. One foot in front of the other, but not both at the same time unless I'm a robin.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
“Well, get the coffer out," said Tobie roundly. "You find his clean clothes and I'll cut his hair round his cap and wash his ears out. Then, when we get to the Palazzo Medici, you imitate his voice and I'll sit him on my knee and move his arms up and down. Where is the problem?”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
“Your state has been seen, and will be reported on. Only it is necessary that you do not yawn. Or, of course, speak. Discretion in all things in all things is needed." She was reminding them, and she hoped they realised it, that they were not circumcised. The circumlocution expected of a high-born Syrian princess was sometimes a trial to Sara Khatun.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
“Julius rose to his feet. The towel dropped, showering cut brown hair over Monna Alessandra's elegant tiles. His hair, finely tailored, clung to a thick-boned face with slanting eyes and a blunt profile which would have looked well on a coin. Tobie, who had almost no hair, gazed at him sadly.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
“Julius brooded. He could see Julius despising the medical school of Pavia. Tobie said, "Nicholas managed the journey from Flanders all right. Deferred to you, joked discreetly with me, got on like a dyeworks on fire with the muleteers.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Spring of the Ram
Dorothy Dunnett
Born place: in Dunfermline, Scotland, The United Kingdom
Born date August 25, 1923
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“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
― Robert Harris, quote from Pompeii
“У неё был такой же тупой вид, какой бывает у бретонского крестьянина, когда он слушает проповедь священника.
скрытность – единственное пристанище для душ чистых и страждущих.
Тонкое, чисто женское чутье говорило ей, что гораздо лучше повиноваться человеку одаренному, нежели руководить глупцом, и что молодая супруга, принужденная действовать и думать за мужа,- ни женщина, ни мужчина, что, отрекаясь от своей злополучной женской слабости, она вместе с тем теряет и всю свою женственную прелесть, не получая взамен ни одного преимущества, которые наши законы предоставили мужчинам.
расставаясь с Парижем, он почти ни о чём не сожалел. Женщины уже не производили на него впечатления, -- оттого ли, что, по его мнению, истинная страсть должна занять слишком большое место в жизни политического деятеля, или оттого, что волокитство -- это времяпрепровождение пошляков -- казалось ему слишком пустым занятием для человека с сильной душою. Все мы притязаем на душевную силу. Ни один француз, пусть самый заурядный, не согласится прослыть всего лишь остроумцем.
Многозначительное слово «специалист» словно нарочно создано для такой вот разновидности безмозглых моллюсков от политики и литературы.
Только в известном возрасте иные утонченные женщины умеют сделать красноречивым свой облик. Но что же открывает тридцатилетней женщине секрет выразительной внешности: радость или печаль, счастье или несчастье? Это живая загадка, и всякий истолкует ее так, как подскажут ему желания, надежды, убеждения.
Женщин более всего умиляет в нас та ласковая утонченность, та изысканность чувств, какие свойственны им самим; ибо для них нежность и утонченность служат верными признаками «истинности».
Никогда не следует опасаться недобрых чувств в любви: они целительны; женщины падают только под ударами добродетели.
Чем сдержаннее была эта ласка, тем сильнее, тем опаснее была она. К их общему несчастью, не было в ней и тени фальши. То сочетались две прекрасные души, разделенные тем, что является законом, соединенные тем, что обольщает в природе.
Вообще солдаты, которым довелось испытать много бед, любят детей, потому что понимают, как жалка-сила и сколько преимуществ у слабости.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from A Woman Of Thirty
“I pull back and tell him, “You’re amazing.”
He gives me a soft smirk. “That is the general consensus.”
I smile. “And I love you.”
He sets my feet on the floor but keeps his arms around my waist. “Good. Then you’re going to let me put three locks on the door of whatever apartment you decide to move into. And a chain. And a dead bolt.”
I smile wider. “Okay.”
Drew slowly steps forward, backing me up toward the bed.
“And you’re not going to bitch when I have a security system installed.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it.”
We take another step together, almost like we’re dancing.
“I’m thinking about buying you one of those ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up’ necklaces too.”
My eyes squint as I pretend to think about the idea. “We’ll talk about it.”
“And . . . you’re going to let me walk you home from work every night.”
“Yes.”
The back of my legs make contact with the bed frame.
“I’m also going to come to every doctor’s appointment with you.”
“I didn’t for a second imagine you wouldn’t.”
Drew cups my face in his hands. “And one day, I’m going to ask you to marry me. And you’re going to know it’s not because you’re pregnant, or because of some misguided attempt to keep you.”
Tears spring into my eyes as we gaze at each other.
In a rough voice, he continues, “You’re going to know I’m asking because nothing would make me prouder than to be able to say, ‘This is my wife, Kate.’ And when I do ask, you’re going to say yes.”
When I nod, one tear trails down my cheek. Drew wipes it away with his thumb as I promise, “It’s a sure thing.”
And then he’s kissing me, with all the passion and desire he’s held in check the last two days. Drew cradles my head as we fall on the bed together.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Twisted
“I love you, Butterscotch. You have the most beautiful heart of anyone I've ever met. And maybe you feel like a mess sometimes, and life is a mess sometimes, but the way I see it, you're the beauty that came from the mess.”
― Mia Sheridan, quote from Finding Eden
“To his left he saw the other regiments, men from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Men like these, he thought, just farmers and shopkeepers, and now we are soldiers, and now we are about to die.”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from Gods and Generals
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