22 Quotes by Ariana Franklin

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.