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The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2) QUOTES

The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2) QUOTES

1 " The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

2 " And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

3 " Ye'll learn more of a man if ye look at his face when he's looking at somebody else, than ye'll learn any other way, but,' he advised her, 'ye have to keep silent to do it "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

4 " Hiding the person you are,' he said, 'won't make you happy. I never hide who I am. What I am. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

5 " But what you bring back with you in the end, he said, might not be what you started out in search of to begin with "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

6 " The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

7 " We rarely see the things we don’t expect to see. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

8 " Because it is in giving of ourselves and our possessions that we best please God; by actions, not words. And all men do deserve a chance to earn God's grace. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

9 " The firebird drops a feather, was his summary, and if you're fool enough to pick it up and chase the bird itself, you're in for trouble. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

10 " We cannot know a man's nature when all does go well with him, but when those people he thinks will assist him oppose him instead, then we know, for a man has the patience and humility that he shows then, and no more. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

11 " Some things weren’t meant to live in cages. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

12 " She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

13 " If we cannae be what we were born to be, the whole of it, we die a little on the inside, every day we live the lie. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

14 " Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

15 " Rob was always a gentleman. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

16 " into the air. There was love here—not perfect, but strong, "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

17 " There are times,” he said to Anna, “when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

18 " My love, cease thy weeping, now listen to me, For waking and sleeping, my heart is with thee; Love, let nothing grieve thee, and do not complain, For I never will leave thee, while life doth remain. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

19 " Now do that with your thoughts as well, pluck out the needless vanities and worries, and you’ll find you grow the straighter for it. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)

20 " I'm looking for a man. "

― Susanna Kearsley , The Firebird (The Scottish series, #2)