Gerstenberg Quotes

#1. Don't think I couldn't see the love in his eyes when he looked at you. He would have fought to the death for you, that handsome Valten Gerstenberg.

Melanie Dickerson

#2. Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.

Melanie Dickerson

#3. But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear?

Charlotte Bronte

#4. We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Gisela looked more frightened now than she had before-frightened for him rather than for herself if he read the expression correctly. He looked her in the eye. I won't let you down. I will save you.

Melanie Dickerson

#6. Even a dozen soldiers couldn't make her feel as safe as Valten could.

Melanie Dickerson

#7. Gisela. She was beautiful and easy to talk to. And unlike Rainhilda, she didn't prattle on and on about things Valten didn't care or know anything about. She talked about horses-a subject he was quite comfortable with. And he always thought a love of horses was sign of gentleness and good character.

Melanie Dickerson

#8. It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.

Billy Collins

#9. My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

Ann Romney

#10. Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

Franz Werfel

#11. Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way.

Debasish Mridha

#13. So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

Nick Hornby

#14. Or as Gabe had done, to rescue your betrothed from some evil force. That appealed to him. But he'd yet to find a damsel in distress, oppressed by evil and in need of rescue.

Melanie Dickerson

#15. When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

Bryan Batt

#16. What had his life meant? All his success, all the tournaments he'd won ... they were like dust and ashes. Meaningless. Without Gisela, his life was meaningless.

Melanie Dickerson

#17. If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

Kerry King

#18. She whispered, Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.

Melanie Dickerson

#19. Valten's blood boiled at the thought of Ruexner holding Gisela, of him taking her by force, dragging her away from underneath Valten's nose, from his own home.

Melanie Dickerson

#20. I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

Christopher Owens

#21. No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

Diane Setterfield

#22. She herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

Carol Shields

#23. Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#24. His hands wrapped around her upper arms, holding her gently. You are even more beautiful when you dance.

Melanie Dickerson

#25. Ruexner will pay dearly for this, Valten promised, speaking to no one in particular, but imagining he had the fiend's neck between his hands. If he dared hurt Gisela ...

Melanie Dickerson

#26. Promise me that if you get a chance to escape without me, you will do it. He won't kill me. Go find your men and come back for me."
His eyelids and brows lowered. " You don't know me very well or you wouldn't say such a thing. I won't leave you.

Melanie Dickerson

#27. Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)

Jennifer Niven

#28. He bent lower to whisper in her ear, I love you, queen of beauty and love.

Melanie Dickerson