Love Quote by Melanie Dickerson

“You picked the lock.” The king was staring at her again. “Yes, Your Majesty.” He suddenly burst out laughing, then nodded. He leaned forward,…

— Melanie Dickerson

“So after he married her, he set out not really to woo her, which he thought would be cheating when affairs of state had…

— Robin McKinley

“She closed her eyes, since he was behind her and couldn’t see her anyway, and seared this last kindness into her memory, this feeling…

— Melanie Dickerson

“As it turned out, the reality of her love story with Lord Thornbeck was much more satisfying than any of her romantic stories and…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Besides, if she was able to get away, Dorothea would obtain the one thing that Avelina had dreamed of, written stories about, and imagined…

— Melanie Dickerson

“How would Avelina, the daughter of a crippled former stable master and a lady’s maidservant, ever fool the Margrave of Thornbeck and all his…

— Melanie Dickerson

“I know whom I shall marry. He must be handsome, young, clever enough, and very rich-ever so much richer than the Lawrences. His family…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Avelina finally decided to work on a story she had been writing to amuse Dorothea. It was about the daughter of an earl who…

— Melanie Dickerson

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

— John Keats

“If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account…

— Virginia Woolf

“Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep…

— Émile Zola