5 quotes found
“I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.”
“It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.”
“Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?”
“And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestion...”
“But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...”
