Anne Wegener

“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Cadfael hastened towards his workshop with a lightened heart, having shifted his worries to broader shoulders,”
― Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair

“She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together....Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:”
― John Piper, Coronavirus and Christ