Abbey Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“He's a terrible man, miss," Nanny Maude said. "Consorts with devils, he does, and drinks blood, and..." "He was at Culloden! " Lydia blurted…

— Anne Stuart

“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His skin was gray and riddled with bloody sores. His mouth, which still dripped with Charlie’s blood, twisted into a grimace and he let…

— Kristen Middleton

“And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they went into…

— Charles Dickens

“She was a kinswoman of the queen, a member of the most powerful family in England. A Boleyn.”

— V.E. Lynne

“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite…

— Colleen McCullough

“had decided while she was in bed that she would never speak to her again. But she wanted Marnie to see her. She wanted…

— Joan G. Robinson

“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck…

— Gustav Flaubert

“Rockton is no more Oliver than Churchgrove is Lord Kirkwood,” Lady Minerva said stoutly. “Then why did you steal my name for him?” Oliver…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“Whenever Elliot Norther’s wife was nervous she baked. With the murder of Harriet Mason, her husband’s close colleague at the Faculty, she had been…

— Robert Clear

“A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady Beatrice that, though she had been sincerely…

— Kage Baker