Tis action moves the world....[in]...

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.

- Susanna Kearsley

The Winter Sea

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Other quotes by Susanna Kearsley

Let the devil bar my way, I will come back to ye.

- Susanna Kearsley

Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it.

- Susanna Kearsley

No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.

- Susanna Kearsley

The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.

- Susanna Kearsley

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

- Susanna Kearsley

And does he like blondes, as well?'Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola.

- Susanna Kearsley

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