Patricia

“Demelza bent to examine the cow—with a professionalism of manner that came from her seven years at Nampara, not at all from her Illogan childhood.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark / Demelza / Jeremy Poldark

“Ross thought, There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark / Demelza / Jeremy Poldark

“He put his arm around her. “Tut, tut. If anything happens to me you will have much still to live for. This house and land will be yours. You will become principal shareholder in Wheal Leisure Mine. You will have a duty—to people and to the countryside…” She stopped him. “Nay, Ross, I shall have nothing. I shall be a beggar again. I shall be an unfledged miner’s wench—” “You’ll be a handsome young woman in your first twenties with a small estate and a load of debts. The best of your life will be ahead of you—” “I live only through you. You made me what I am. You think me into being handsome, you think me into being a squire’s wife—” “Stuff. You’d surely marry again. If I were gone there’d be men humming around here from all over the county. It isn’t flattery but the sober truth. You could take your pick of a dozen—” “I should never marry again. Never!”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark / Demelza / Jeremy Poldark

“She looked up and saw that his scrutiny had gratified him. It was one of the few comforting factors in Demelza’s excursions into society, this faculty she had of pleasing men. She did not see it yet as power, only as a buttress to faltering courage. She”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark / Demelza / Jeremy Poldark