“He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him.”

“But in her heart she truly believed she was a better lady than Lady Dorothea ever was. Was it wrong to think she was nobler in her heart than the true nobleman's daughter?”

“If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins an...”

“She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and hiding the truth from herself had not saved her at all. And even though this love was painful, it...”

“A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.”

“True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers”