“Yes," Nicholas replied, in a bored voice. "The name is Dutch. Dragonwyck, meaning place of the dragon. It derives from an Indian legend about a flying serpent whose eyes were fire and whose flaming breath withered the corn." "Heavens!" With… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.” — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“The orchard where they stood was on higher ground than the farmhouse, which nestled like a white dove beneath hemlocks and the tall protecting… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“The knights were disgusted. They said that all that fiddle-faddle was well enough for saints, or might have been a thousand years ago, but… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he had never quite realised it… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
