The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.