“As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort … well, if women’s work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn’t being accomplished at any given moment?”
― The Fiery Cross
― The Fiery Cross
“Claire’s hands moved when she talked, rising long and white in the air, as though she would catch the future between them and give it shape, would hand Jamie her thoughts as she spoke them, smooth and polished objects, bits of sculptured air.”
― The Fiery Cross
― The Fiery Cross
“If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth,” his adoptive father had told him once. “You may not know what it is, mind,” he’d added with a smile. “But it’s there.”
― An Echo in the Bone
― An Echo in the Bone
“Feelings aren’t truth,”
― The Fiery Cross
― The Fiery Cross
“Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful as it is mindless, irresistible as the process of birth itself. But powerful as it is, it is a love always of control; one is in charge, the protector, the watcher, the guardian—there is great passion in it, to be sure, but never abandon.”
― Voyager
― Voyager
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