Natasha

“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. —Irving Townshend, Separate Lives”
― Michael Korda, Cat People: A Witty, Charming, and Sometimes Sad Portrait of Unforgettable Cats and Their People

“The word ‘steward’ derives from the Anglo-Saxon ‘stig’, meaning a hall, and ‘weard’, which is ward, guardian or keeper.”
― Allan Massie, The Royal Stuarts

“WE CAME TO THIS STORY by separate paths, one of us by accident and one by birth.”
― Bill Dedman, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours “persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965