Meagan McKinney > Quotes

“Alana,

You once told me there'd come a day when I would regret making you marry me. I do regret it now, Alana, with all my heart. For tonight I've seen the joy on a willing bride's face, and I regret that I was never able to see that on yours. I mourn the sorrow I now understand that I've brought to you, but if you leave me, I'll mourn my ow sorrow at losing you infinitely more. Let these words assure you that in this world of injustice, God's sword is ruthless upon the wicked. If I lose you, one man, THIS man, got what he deserved.

Trevor”
― Meagan McKinney, Lions and Lace

“The music touched her, haunted her, because it was so beautiful and because she had never waltzed to it in her true love's arms. And never would.”
― Meagan McKinney, Lions and Lace

“Anyone who braves the world sooner or later feels the consequences of it. —Lady Elizabeth Melbourne”
― Meagan McKinney, Till Dawn Tames the Night

“And there was another scent as well, one more subtle, but unquestionably more powerful. It whispered of things ancient, dark and mysterious. The smell of soot from a druid fire. The lingering bite in the air of gunpowder after a dual. It was dangerous, seductive, unnatural. And she found she could not get her fill of it.”
― Meagan McKinney, The Ground She Walks Upon

“callous to the kind, not to”
― Meagan McKinney, Lions and Lace

“north toward Yorkville. Alana tore her gaze from the window, by some instinct sure Trevor had been watching her. But when she looked at him, his head was buried in the evening copy of the Chronicle as he analyzed the stock-market section. The front page, emblazoned with the details of their wedding,”
― Meagan McKinney, Lions and Lace

“. . . Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when re alities are melting from me like the shadows which I now dis miss, still find thee near me . . . David Copperfield to Agnes, Charles Dickens”
― Meagan McKinney, When Angels Fall