Phyllis Ann Karr > Quotes

“It did not have the makings of a cozy situation for anyone but Mordred, who seems to relish being hated for the love of being hated.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“Poor man! Is your curiosity so hot for what you’ve been denied? And you men put the blame on Eve and excuse Adam.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“Your brother, Mordred, has a grain of sense about prophecies. Of course they’ll come true—if a man broods on them until he finds his chance to make them come true.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“She could no longer hear the birds. She tried to concentrate on the pain instead—old Moonscar had told her there was a way, somewhere, of using pain as a ladder to climb above pain. It was a very dark way…she could tell only that the blade seemed to be cutting an angle.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, Frostflower And Thorn

“To which Mrs Beale, who had heard the sentiment before, replied that she found both the conversation and the card-play better when the gentlemen gave more attention to her mind and less to her bosom.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, Raised Eyebrows: Author's Edition

“Whatever was to happen eventually, she was slipping for now into the state of timelessness, when the past was one small circle of all events both recent and long ago, the empty future seemed suspended forever, and the present was an all-encompassing blanket floating in nothingness.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, Frostflower And Thorn

“Juno Beale...could still at thirty-five have passed for a mature thirty-three. This evening, however, one might have said she was trying to appear fiftyish.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, Raised Eyebrows: Author's Edition

“his squire Melehan, Mordred’s oldest son, had to help him off his palfrey.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“Better they should ruin their reputations," snapped the spinster, "than saddle 'emselves with a bad husband.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, Raised Eyebrows: Author's Edition