“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours.'
'How can you be so sure?'
'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“...a man with eyes the color of the winter sea.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“The man they'd come to see was up and standing at the window with his back to them, so that only Sophia saw his squared stance and his shoulders and the brown hair fastened back above the collar of his shirt. He wore no coat, just breeks and boots, and in the fine white shirt he stood there pale and like a ghost, the only thing of light in that dull room.
He spoke again, not looking round, his voice grown hoarser from the illness. 'Did you ye see her? Was she well?'
'She will be now,' the colnel gently said...
Sophia could not move from where she stood. Could not believe it.
Then he turned, a ghost no longer, but a breathing man. A living man, whose shadowed eyes grew brighter in the grip of hard emotion as he left the window and in two strides crossed to fold her in his arms...”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“I told ye I'd come back to ye.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Whatever might become of them, she knew that there was nothing that could rob them of that happiness. For they had lived their winter, and the spring had finally come.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“It's hard enough judging the motives of people who live in our own times, let alone the motives of those who've been dead three hundred years. They can't come back and tell us, can they?”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“David McClelland was changed by that day more than most men.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“For if there was no winter, we could never hope for spring.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Let the devil bar my way, I will come back to ye.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Watching, I could feel again the stirrings of my characters—the faint, as yet inaudible, suggestion of their voices, and their movements close around me, in the way someone can sense another’s presence in a darkened room. I didn’t need to shut my eyes. They were already fixed, not truly seeing, on the window glass, in that strange writer’s trance that stole upon me when my characters began to speak, and I tried hard to listen.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Some men prayed for life and some for death, in languages as varied as their uniforms—the Dutch and Germans and the Scots and French and English tangled side by side, for all men looked alike when they were dying.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“It winna dee ye ony good, it disna ring. The salt fae the sea ruins the wiring, fast as I fix it. Besides,’ said the man, as he came up to join us, ‘I’m nae in the hoose tae be hearin ye, am I?”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“She’d looked at herself with a sigh, having hoped her reflection would show something more than the road-weary waif who sighed back at her, bright curls disheveled and darkened by dust, pale eyes reddened and circled by shadows of sleeplessness.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren’t always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“Where’e’er I go, my Soul shall stay with thee: ’Tis but my Shadow that I take away;”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“hard-scraping tools, with his sharp-featured face and the mirthless dark eyes that seemed always, whenever”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
“He was drifting, I could hear it in his voice. He always fell asleep as easily as some great lazing cat, he only had to close his eyes and moments later he’d be gone, while my own mind kept on whirring round with scattered thoughts and images.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Winter Sea
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“Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.”
― Michael Chabon, quote from Wonder Boys
“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Again, this has not to do with practical advantage but with realising the idea of love, the meaning of which is in sacrifice: the very antithesis of pragmatism. I simply cannot believe that an artist can ever work only for the sake of 'self-expression.' Self-expression if meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, quote from Sculpting in Time
“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. ”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Sarah
“For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in it’s place.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Kill Artist
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