Karen Harper > Quotes

“The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.”
― Karen Harper

“He would almost call this feeling for
jeannette hate, if he were not so afraid it was love.”
― Karen Harper, The First Princess of Wales

“Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.”
― Karen Harper, Fall from Pride

“Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God.”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“Evil to him who evil thinks,....”
― Karen Harper, The First Princess of Wales

“I can do this, I told myself. Somehow, I will survive and thrive.”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“there may come a time when you must go on, be strong without a friend until you can make new ones, stand on your own.”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“So I am of Father’s blood, but not yours?” “You are of his blood and of my heart, and what could matter more than that?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“We love you, our angel, and always will,” Papa said and patted me on the back. I knew enough of my Bible to realize why I had overheard, more than once, some of our Bowes Lyon relations refer to David and me as “the Benjamins.” After all, Benjamin was the dearly beloved and youngest of his father’s and Rachel’s children and had many older half brothers.”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“The beauty here was luring but deceptive.”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“slowly, “You care too much, Will. Do not let His Grace”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“Don’t know why they call this morning sickness. It’s all-day sickness, if you ask me. Baby making and baby growing, a joy but tough, too.”
― Karen Harper, Deep in the Alaskan Woods

“He kissed her again, bringing both hands up behind her head to hold her still, and his hot lips slanted sideways across her open moutb. Her head spun crazily. She was dizzy. She could not breathe in here. She would fall in front of the queen. They would all know what he had done. There was no time left, surely. The castle portcullis would swing up, the door would be opened and His Grace would see them!
He pulled his mouth away and said against her flushed cheek, "I have never envied any other man his bed before this long, long week. Now two men will possess you and neither really loves you, Mary Bullen. Think of me when you spread your sweet thighs for them!”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says."
"Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark."
"But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.”
― Karen Harper, The First Princess of Wales

“How was it that some commanders would have been drummed out of service and court-martialed for two military disasters, but Louis “Dickie” Mountbatten had landed on his feet again after the losses at Dieppe?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“someone had joked that mosquitoes were the official state insect.”
― Karen Harper, Deep in the Alaskan Woods

“Do not dare to ever touch me again!" she spat at him. "Go caress your Maud, go kiss her in the roses!" A little sob tore from her throat and the stubborn tears sprang to her eyes again.

He loosed her waist and took one of her hands firmly in both of his warm ones. "I am in your bad graces, sweetheart, and rightly so. I did not know you and Will stood so close in the garden."

"I am certain it would not have made one tiny difference to you if the cardinal himself would have stood there watching!"

His teeth shone white in the dim bower as he smiled and the rain splattered down around their protective arch of leaves. "I am elated that my attention to other ladies displeases you."

"I could not care less what you do, William Stafford!"

"Really? Fine, because I am going to kiss you and if we had the time, I would carry you to one of those three hundred silken beds in that great pile of Wolsey's bricks and make hot love to you whether you were willing or not. I told you I do not love the little Jennings, Mary, and I told you true. You know whom I do love, do you not, sweetheart?”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“Tradition, indeed, but the present is built on the past.”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“pedant.”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“I truly meant to only find you and bring you back to the landing, sweet, but when I saw you here alone, I could not help myself. It has been so many years I have longed for the forbidden fruit, Mary, and I am not really a very patient man. You were angered with me today for kissing Maud, but years of smiling and laughing with you and breathing in your sweet scent and seeing that luscious face and body near me and then bidding you a curt goodnight as you go to Will's or Henry's bed is pure hell." He reached over to smooth her hair. "I tell you, Mary, whomever I have slept with these past five years, I have dreamed it was you or, if not, your face came back to tease me-to haunt me-soon after. Do you understand?”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“He walked ahead and opened the police station door for the mayor. The office was deserted. Tess was going to help fill Ann’s daytime shift tomorrow until he could hire someone else, but that was the last thing on his list of things to do right now.”
― Karen Harper, Shattered Secrets

“At the door Queen Phillipa turned slowly back. "Love," she repeated, her face suddenly gone girlishly soft before it turned to pale marble again. "Love fades, poor Joan, and then there is only duty and remembrance.”
― Karen Harper, The First Princess of Wales

“You are Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon,”
― Karen Harper, The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen

“Staff silenced her with a hot kiss. "Hush," he whispered, taking her closer into his arms. "Mary, we have waited long enough. I want you, dearest, to make up for the lonely hours, and countless advice, and worry that your kings and cursed father would totally ruin our life together. And for the wasted years. Tonight, Mary, we are going to begin catching up-and it will take a long, long time for us to be even...”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn

“One thing I have learned from Mama is to fight for what I want,”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“Whatever our position in life, we can make the best of it.”
― Karen Harper, American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress

“You and that damn little dog, too.”
― Karen Harper, Deep in the Alaskan Woods

“Leaning against her Double Delight rosebush, which lay uprooted on its side, was a crudely written sign that read in big letters: You Are Mine or the End!”
― Karen Harper, Deep in the Alaskan Woods

“Tell me what you want, my love," he rasped through parted lips. "Tell me now."

"You, Staff, you. Forever and always. Please."

"Only Staff?"

"Yes, yes. Please, my love. Put out the fire."

"But first I have to fan it brighter," he said low, and moved into her instantly.”
― Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn