13 Quotes by Stephanie Barron

...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?

There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.

Is it too absurd? It must, it cannot be other, than the fevered conjectures of my brain, quite overpowered by the sudden loss. And so I will put down my pen, and make an end to activity, in the hope that silence may be as balm, and isolation relieve despair.

Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it’s direction?

It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.

There is nothing like a bit of ink to bring reason to the most disordered mind.