“ The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! James C. Scott
“ It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w… Antonia Fraser
“ In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment progra… Rick Riordan
“ I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye. Philippa Gregory
“ Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them… Katie McGarry
“ Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.My smile triples in s… Stephanie Perkins
“ About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no atte… Rick Riordan
“ But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward) Edith Wharton
“ The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. Marco Rubio
“ A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Cravina
“ Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables. Proclus
“ For your every tear, know that I'll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I'll never disappear. Anthony Liccione
“ We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be. J.R. Rim
“ Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly… G.K. Chesterton
