Quotes From "Surrender" By Sonya Hartnett

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. Sonya Hartnett

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us. Sonya Hartnett

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. Sonya Hartnett

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery. Sonya Hartnett

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. Sonya Hartnett

You’re not kissing my wife tonight. Serena Grey

I would always be lonely, but no more alone. Sonya Hartnett

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. Sonya Hartnett

Have you always been this skilled with women?" - Joseph to Iain Pamela Clare

Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live. Pamela Clare

She told him .. how her heart had fairly skipped a beat when she'd seen him standing in the middle of the road dressed as a true Highland warrior." If I hadna been in love wi' you already, I'd have fallen in love wi' you then." He grinned, his whiskery face unbearably bonnie even with its cuts and bruises. "So you like the sight of me in a pladdie, aye?"" Aye--and wi' braids in your hair." She leaned down and kissed him. "But I think red paint looks silly. . Pamela Clare

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you." Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me. Pamela Clare

He was, she realised, quite graceful. The very idea surprised her. Male grace was a quality she'd never thought of beyond the ballroom; either a man could dance a quadrille with skill and without stepping on her feet or he could not. But here was another kind of grace altogether--and untrained grace, an instinctive animal grace. Pamela Clare

He didn't see the look his brothers shared or overhear the vow they made to one another--that if any one of the four of them were to make it back from Ticonderoga, it would be Iain. Pamela Clare

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all. Pamela Clare

A hint of fire in his eyes, he glanced up at her. "If that displeases you, lass, I can leave you here for the next savior who comes along. Pamela Clare

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it - Sonya Hartnett

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground. Sonya Hartnett

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds. Sonya Hartnett

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in. Sonya Hartnett

Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one. Elana Johnson

Every person has a season for knowledge. Elana Johnson