Quotes by : Kelsey Brickl

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.

Praying to the Almighty, Javert?” called a voice, and Javert opened his eyes to see Rousseau and Leclerc....

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and....

It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty.....

The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust....

Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that....

When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous,....