Sharon Kay Penman famous quotes

03-18-2025

Iâ€™ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Taken #Garden #Roots
Men are born to sinâ€¦What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Mistake #Men #Benefits
I inhale hope with every breath I take.
-- Sharon Kay Penman
We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Hurt #Children #Suffering
â€¦she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Summer #Sunset #Long
Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Historical #My Favorite #Abigail
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Believe #Happy Endings #Found
Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Honesty #Men #Mind
During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Dream #Memories #Night
In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#War #Devil #Rooms
How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Mother #Baby #Healthy
I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Men #Grace #Answers
I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Years #Crops #Reap
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Men #Flames #Waiting
Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Men #Greed #Stealing
Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Kings #Mind #Tonight
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Book #Flower #Years
â€¦a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Views #Cynic #Mankind
For every wound, the ointment of time.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Wounds
Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Heaven #England #Poor
When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Thinking #Wind #Brain
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Pain #Past #Dragons
There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Imagination #Enemy
Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.
-- Sharon Kay Penman

#Autumn #Years #Sky

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