Valten 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. 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

#3. 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

#4. You cannot write if you do not read,' the blind man said. 'You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not' - he grabbed for the boy's hand - 'listen.

Mitch Albom

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

Melanie Dickerson

#6. Whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#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. He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. 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

#10. As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.

Elie Wiesel

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

Nikki Sanderson

#15. One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

Marshall Sylver

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

Melanie Dickerson

#17. Success has many fathers; failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

Robert Schumann

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

Melanie Dickerson