“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”