Susanna Kearsley

“Oliver...' 'What?' 'I do like you.' 'But?' 'I just don't want you to think that I'm... that is, I'm really not looking…

— Susanna Kearsley

“...a man with eyes the color of the winter sea.”

— Susanna Kearsley

I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“Hiding the person you are,' he said, 'won't make you happy. I never hide who I am. What I am.”

— Susanna Kearsley

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

— Susanna Kearsley

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

— Susanna Kearsley

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

— Susanna Kearsley

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls,…

— Susanna Kearsley

“I clung to him while, overhead, the clouds burst forth a final brilliant streak of golden red, as if the gates of…

— Susanna Kearsley

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right…

— Susanna Kearsley

I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that…

— Susanna Kearsley

..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in…

— Susanna Kearsley

“There are times,” he said to Anna, “when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us…

— Susanna Kearsley

“understanding something didn’t make it easier.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“It's the only thing I begrudge the rich," I said, as I followed him back down the damp-smelling staircase to the ground…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Remember the faith you were raised in my child, and love not in word or in tongue, but in deed and in…

— Susanna Kearsley

“My pleasure," he assured me, propping one shoulder against the doorjamb and folding his arms across his chest. "Rather nice change from…

— Susanna Kearsley

“She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Well, it was over now, I thought. Time everyone forgot, forgave, let be.”

— Susanna Kearsley

There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ...”

— Susanna Kearsley