Katie

“As honey falls fast from the mouth of the practised speaker, the less practised hearer is apt to catch more of the words than of the sense.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux: The Complete Novel

“She had no knowledge that she had thought much of him that evening, but the whole time the thought of his dark, narrow face and his quiet voice had hung somewhere in the dusk outside the glow of light that enfolded her spirit.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Bridal Wreath

“And yet the woman prayed only that God might give her a fearless heart so that she might have faith He would bring that to pass which would be best for the las.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Bridal Wreath

“Much have I done already that I deemed once I dared not to do because 'twas sin. But I saw not till now what sin brings with it — that we must tread others underfoot.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Bridal Wreath