Quotes by Anya Seton

About Anya Seton:

Anya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels".
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Yes," Nicholas replied, in a bored voice. "The name is Dutch. Dragonwyck, meaning place of the dragon. It derives from an Indian legend about a flying serpent whose eyes were fire and whose flaming breath withered the corn." "Heavens!" With a light l...

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Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

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Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet as she surveyed her employer's strong dark profile in secret from beneath her long lashes, she was forced to concl...

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

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He didn't know if it was real, if freedom was something you could earn or win after a long, hard fight, or if it was just an illusion. But he decided it didn't matter. Only this mattered. This moment right here, surrounded by the people he cared abou...

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There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.

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He kissed her, and something moved between them, an unspoken bond pulling them together over what they had gone through and what they would face. But those memoires and thoughts faded away until there was nothing but the sensation of his lips on hers...

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

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

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...out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnya Seton
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 23, 1904
  • DiedNovember 8, 1990
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksKatherine; Green Darkness; My Theodosia; The Winthrop Woman; Dragonwyck