"I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said."

-- Loretta Chase

#Silence Quotes #Nephew Quotes #Judgement Quotes

“There are some men above grief and some men below it.”
“Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”
“Italy is only a geographical expression.”

Source : "Memorandum to the Great Powers" by Klemens Wenzel, August 2, 1814.
“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.”
“Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.”
“I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.”
“If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.”
“Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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