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Susanna Kearsley (born in Brantford, Ontario) is a New York Times best-selling Canadian novelist of historical fiction and mystery, as well as thrillers under the pen name Emma Cole. In 2014, she received Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance for The Firebird.

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Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

Choose, Life Is, Living, Might, Said

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Battle, Fight, Fighting, Knowing, Make, Wish

. . the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes. . . and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

Die, Fields, Lying, Song, Spring, Storms

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

Causes, Happiest, Memories, People, Shares

There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

Meant, Play, Thinking, Work, Work Out, Writer

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

Appeared, Chance, Disappointment, Promise, Shining

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

Beautiful, Beckett, Julia

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

Easy, Past, People, Quite, Seductive

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

Forever, Heart, My Heart, Place, Said

Tis action moves the world. . . . [in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

Mean, Men, Moves, Moving, Step

If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

Born, Ignoring, Life, Men, Soul, Worry

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Deep, Deep Water, Grieving, Hope, Lose, Slides

Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

Littles, Men, Serve, Watches, Wiser

I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours. ' 'How can you be so sure?' 'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.

Back, Country, Drawing, Heart, Knows, Survive