Demelza
Winston Graham
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.”
“They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.”
“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although she was the woman and he a fierce and sometimes arrogant man, hers was the stronger nature because the more pliant.”
“... however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.”
“He was not a man who spoke his innermost feelings easily, but now he saw himself powerless to help her, and only words of his and not actions would give her aid. 'Nothing else matters but you,' he said. 'Remember that. All my relatives and friends - and Elizabeth, and this house and the mine... I'd throw them in the dust and you know it - you know it. If you don't know it, then all these months I've failed and no words I can give you now will make it otherwise. I love you, Demelza and we've had such happiness. And we're going to have it again. Take hold of that, my sweet. Hold it and keep it, for no one else can.”
“Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.”
“An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark.”
“Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.”
“George stared across the street. 'There is only one trouble with the Poldarks,' he said after a moment. 'They cannot take a beating.' 'And only one trouble with the Warleggans,' said Ross. 'They never know when they are not wanted.' George's color deepened. 'But they can appreciate and remember an insult.' 'Well, I trust you will remember this one.' Ross turned his back and went down the steps into the tavern.”
“Perhaps,” said Demelza, trembling all over. “Perhaps I’d ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it’s so long since we met.” “I don’t doubt you have been well consoled in my absence,” said Ross. “You were not concerned to come and see whether I was or no.” “It seems that I was unwelcome when I did.”
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Book Keywords:
love, complex-love, advice, marriage, poldark, warleggan, distress, emotions, sadness, depression, grief
