Paul C.R. Monk > Quotes

“Sometimes, Jeanne thought, you have to live in the present, for the here and now. It enables you to put distance between life’s tides; it saves you from getting muddled in future plans and from worries that have not yet even emerged. So,”
― Paul C.R. Monk, Voyage of Malice

“But whenever the dark thoughts come on, especially at night, I try to force them to one side, because fear is a gnawing demon. It will suck all the puff out of your sails if you let it, till you lose all will to move forward. So, I decided I wouldn’t let”
― Paul C.R. Monk, The Huguenot Chronicles: Books 1 - 3: A historical fiction trilogy

“Louise and Anne would travel with her always, because she carried them in her heart. It was liberating to know she could travel the world, and they would still be with her. Just because they had been called to God did not mean she was not their mother.”
― Paul C.R. Monk, Voyage of Malice

“Clad in a waxed travel cloak, Jacob watched the clump of land at the tip of Manhattan become gradually enshrouded in swathes of fog.”
― Paul C.R. Monk, The Huguenot Chronicles: Books 1 - 3: A historical fiction trilogy

“Wasn’t that one of the fundamental pillars of this new society, to choose your faith and your life as you saw fit, and with the people whom you saw as worthy?”
― Paul C.R. Monk, May Stuart: A Historical Adventure Novel

“from their station was like the earth”
― Paul C.R. Monk, The Huguenot Chronicles: Books 1 - 3 (includes: Merchants of Virtue, Voyage of Malice, Land of Hope): A historical fiction trilogy

“Elizabeth would be eleven this year, Lulu was coming up for three, and little Paul was seven. He”
― Paul C.R. Monk, Merchants of Virtue