“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“...life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?” — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
