Sara Donati Quotes

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.

Queens and goddesses forget nothing, except when it suits them.

when he managed to get one into his mouth.

There was nothing predictable in this life, and very little that was fair.

Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.

The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.

When it's right it's never too late, when it's wrong it's always too soon

I have loved the stars too well to fear the night.
---Elizabeth Middleton Bonner

Elizabeth knew that if she climbed the ladder she would find that the twins were in the same bed, sleeping back to back. She could go up there now and separate them, but in the morning she would find them together again. They might bicker and wrangle endlessly during the day, but in sleep they could not deny the bond that had been forged in the warm dark waters of the womb. One day circumstance or age or both would separate them for good, but they were in no hurry for that day to come, and neither was Elizabeth.

If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they'd never let go.

A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

white sand. Lily white. Lily. After a good while she realized

subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love,