Lynnette Matrone

“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Arthur thought it better to make sure that the scattered Saxon forces could not re-form, at least while he came south for his father's burial."
"He is young,"she said, "for such a charge."
I smiled. "But ready for it, and more than able. Believe me, it was like seeing a young falcon take to the air, or a swan to the water.”
― Mary Stewart, The Last Enchantment

“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“A woman's heart is such a complex problem—the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution of this puzzle.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel