My Dedication to Karleen Koen

I am writing today because over the past couple of years, two particular books, of the many books that I have read (being the nonstop reader that I am) had an enormous impact on my life. I truly am a devoted admirer of Karleen Koen and her novel Through a Glass Darkly followed by its sequel Now Face to Face. The Story of Barbara/Lady Devane and her journey through life and her struggles, pain, heartbreak, wisdom, strength, and dignity as a character as well has the overall story, plot, cast of characters, and everlasting imprint the novel has, taking the reader back to the 1700's, upon the old European World and New World/Colonial Development of North America. I have decided to share my favorite quotes, many which are from the Holy Word,  from the sequel that I recently, sad to say, finished. This book can definitely strengthen any woman and give her the spirit to overcome and endure all of her battles in life. I will treasure these two books forever. 

Quotes from Now Face To Face

By: Karleen Koen

"Keep Thy Heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life."

"Never runaway from the truth, because it sits upon your shoulder. When you least expect it to, it will put its ugly face into yours and say, Boo." -Duchess of Tamworth

"Nicotiana- Latin-tobacco: Sacred to natives. When you smoke a pipe of tobacco with an Indian you do so not for enjoyment, but rather to sanctify a pact or treaty or deed... (also use for prayers and blessings)... good things, not prodigal like Europeans." -Major Custis

"The Moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.' I quote from Sappho." -Philippe - French Prince de Soissons

"Watch and Pray. Time passeth away like a shadow carved on a gravestone."

"Everything changes, and nothing does."

"I will know it, and I will love it." - Blackstone (of his freedom from his indenture)

"Those of us given the gifts of charm and beauty, Bab, said her grandmother, ...'those of us given them use them kindly, discreetly, with honesty, for otherwise the hurt to others is too great. And one day the hurt will turn around and bite."

The Art of Seduction: Once they trust you, hurt them. (of men) They struggle to escape but can't. The hurt paralyzes them, makes you puppetmaster, them the puppet. - Richelieu

"There is a greater purpose to all than we know, Colonel Perry said, 'Believe that and life becomes, even in despair, a thing of adventure."

"May we sit just a moment? The snow feels like kisses on my face." -Babs (Barbara on Christmas Day) 

"Make the bones which thou has broken rejoice."

"I want to live a life of truth and not lies." -Barbara

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; In him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fouler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler."

"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." The Sun was up a New Day had begun. (Psalm of David)

"When you loved hard, you lost hard. Losses are there, like the sweetest of shadows, in the shape of your mouth." -Viscount Duncannon.

"There was nothing half way in such a woman's love." -Laurence Slane/Duncannon of his mother, wife, Aunt Shrew

"You build with one hand and try to destroy with another." -The Duchess of Tamworth.

Roger she had loved with a girl's heart. Slane she was beginning to love with a woman's heart. -Barbara

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old Time is still a flying/ And this same flower that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be dying." -Laurence Slane

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his names sake. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies..."

"We must never interfere in another's hopes." -Colonel Perry

"The dead are in the child who is wailing, in the firebrand that flames, in the fire that is dying. The dead are not dead." -The Slave Song

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."

"Loss made a body afraid to love again, but in the end there was nothing else but love..."

"The dead are not dead...They are in the fire that is dying, in the grasses that weep... in the whimpering rocks...the dead are not dead... Listen. Listen. Listen.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child. I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I set aside childish ways. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

I Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 11-12