“If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall?” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“You can cower,” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things—hairpins and stockings and a glove.… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesn’t know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“I can see how your mother would have a point. Having a debate with a politically minded woman can be intriguing and… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
