We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

If people hate me they hate me.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.