Anya Seton Quotes

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...