AnneMarie Brear > Quotes

“Let her go or I'll blow a hole clear through you. Move this instant! (You can't seriously mean to threaten me with that? You couldn't possibly know one end of that gun from the other.) I know the end I have at you is capable of taking off your head and believe me, Mr. Cabot, she said in a low even tone, I'd have little trouble pulling the trigger and doing just that. You yourself are always reminding me of my insanity.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“be an”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“I told you not to let fear keep you from living your life...but also going my own way was more than having my own way.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“I was convinced that my position in society revealed my true character and nature.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“adventurous”
― AnneMarie Brear, Beneath a Stormy Sky

“few”
― AnneMarie Brear, Kitty McKenzie

“Huntley”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Distant Legacy

“importance, just the weather, the landscape and”
― AnneMarie Brear, Southern Sons

“she gave a little pull and then in a swoosh of water and blood the baby slithered out onto the bed and its cry filled the room. ‘It’s here!’ Royston, a piece of wood in his hand, stood staring in awe. He dropped the wood and fell to the floor beside the bed, kissing Daisy’s face in rapture. ‘What is it?’ Daisy asked tiredly. ‘A girl,’ Millie said over the baby’s wailing. She wiped the baby’s tiny face, cleaning away the gunky birth mess.”
― AnneMarie Brear, Christmas at the Chateau

“You have seen beyond the wall.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“could still go on holiday. Maybe. With this in mind, I rang Joanna,”
― AnneMarie Brear, Hooked on You

“Columbia.”
― AnneMarie Brear, To Gain What's Lost

“Virgina, it would break our hearts should you die. Your father and I love you so much. Please don't leave us now.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Virgnia, you must get well! (No one would suffer.) I would suffer! - Virgina & Joseph”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“I know I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I'm asking for it nevertheless- Lee / Friend you've always had it. You should have known that. -Joseph”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“an”
― AnneMarie Brear, Beneath a Stormy Sky

“as”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Market Stall Girl

“I cannot turn back the hands of time.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Betsy told him with a grin.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Waterfront Lass

“I had completely missed the importance of living on more than pretense and deeds.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Fear only kills love and fear is not from God. The Bible says for God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“Who can measure her destiny?”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“with their problems. There are asylums catering for people like Letitia, but Mama won’t hear of it.’ ‘And nor should she!’ Phoebe stood and walked to the window to gaze out of it. ‘Imagine what people would think.’ Gaby looked from one sister to another. ‘What is to be done?’ ‘Nothing for the moment, unfortunately.’ Grace shook her head sadly. ‘You appear weary, Grace. You must take care of yourself too.’ ‘I try.’ Grace replaced her teacup and saucer on the tray. ‘The doctor’s bill is enormous from his attendance to Father, Mama’s feigned sicknesses and now”
― AnneMarie Brear, Grace's Courage

“Farm”
― AnneMarie Brear, A Distant Horizon

“Father, it means the world to me that I have not shamed you.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“rounds of cheese, loaves bread”
― AnneMarie Brear, Whispers of Spring

“I may well be envious but I am not an adulterous woman”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“The truth is the truth, no matter how much we wish it to be otherwise. In the beginning I loved them, or at least I wanted to. But Hampton killed my love.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“A willing heart that seeks to do what God would have you do will take you much farther than all the book knowledge and education that man can afford you.”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Promise of Tomorrow

“a good an hour before”
― AnneMarie Brear, The Tobacconist's Wife