Anya Seton Quotations

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.