Rebekah Knapp

“They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“When forming images, it helps to have a dirty mind. Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex—and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“He was a goat tethered to the peg of his own character and could only consume the riches of the earth that came within his range. And she had bound herself to stay in his circle for the rest of her life…”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

“Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza