Paula Marshall > Quotes

“True love asks no questions, makes no reservations, but puts itself unconditionally into the hands of the loved one.”
― paula marshall, An Affair of Honour

“By God, it would be a pleasure to master her, to ride her to the Devil who had blessed, nay, cursed her with that tongue. Aye, and beyond him to the lowest pit of Hell where only the demons lurked, forgotten even by their unsavoury Lord!”
― Paula Marshall, The Deserted Bride

“Thinking so, a great wave of feeling swept through Clare. A feeling which was neither of the body nor the mind, but something between the two. An inconvenient feeling.
Not only had she fallen in love with Ralph Schuyler, but she also loved
him and everything about him with a passion..”
― Paula Marshall, An Affair of Honour

“...she had a tongue like the Devil. Nor did she fail to use it at every turn.”
― Paula Marshall, The Deserted Bride

“Give yourself to me, wife, let me make you mine,” and like the stallion, the stag and the other animals—both tame and wild—he made her his own.”
― Paula Marshall, The Deserted Bride

“In his clear view of the world, free from illusion--suddenly saw that the day of men like the Colonel was over. The Great War had created a new world in which the values of the Colonel and his kind had become outdated, even dangerous, for they assumed that men still adhered to a code of honour simply because they belonged to a particular class. And this was no longer true.”
― Paula Marshall, An Affair of Honour