Anne Wise’s Reviews > Ross Poldark > Status Update

“One did not so much feel sorrow at his absence as a sense of the unfitness of his not being here.“

“Every family, thought, Ross, had its rakes and its spendthrifts; their blood was passed on with the rest, strange taints of impulse and perversity. It was the only explanation.“

“So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but common place adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.“

“Life seemed to be teaching him that the satisfaction of most appetites carried in them the seeds of frustration, that it was the common delusion of all men to imagine otherwise.”