9 quotes found
“Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.”
“When someone falls, Mark said, you dont throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. Its the Christian thing to do.”
“Sir Mark Turner," he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.”
“One mustnt justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.”
“A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. Its a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.”
“I hated you, she continued, because you have done nothing more than abide by rules that every gentlewoman follows every day of her life. Yet for this prosaic feat, you are feted and cosseted as if ...”
“Men touch their horses to calm them, she said distantly. They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.”
“What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent childs life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put tosell the...”
“I adhere to the law of chastity because I dont believe in pushing women. Thats what it means to be a man. I dont hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely a...”
