Dorothy Dunnett Quote

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...