SamuraiKitty

“If you will excuse us?’

‘Go to Sir Henry’s room,’ Lady Mary called after her. ‘And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle

“Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

“One knows, when all one’s life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate

“The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play