23 Quotes by Mark Beauregard

I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me.

Maria said, “Penmanship is no laughing matter, Miss Field.

You are so very far from perfect, but when it comes to the world and to me, you will only accept absolute love, and that’s why you always feel unsatisfied, most of all with yourself, because you are incapable of the thing you desire most. That is why it isn’t easy to love you, but also why I do.

He had never heard the term absolute love before. Unconditional love, yes – an equally impossible concept – but absolute? He turned it over his mind: it seemed more aggressive than grace, more demanding than acceptance, the complete opposite of resignation, something austere and grand – even literary.

Must we submit eternally to male tyranny?