Charlatans Quote by Anya Seton

“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

“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

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

— Anya Seton

“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

“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

“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

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

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

— Anya Seton

“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

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

— Anya Seton

“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

“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