Belva Plain Quotes

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.