It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
I felt sure…that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either.
I felt sure, glaring at the children as they settled onto the sand with their shovels, that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. Then, looking down on their glossy...
Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable.
This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought a...
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their po...
I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.
Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be...
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.
You handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
The thing that haunted me that day, however, as I closed my notebook and put my coat on to go home, was not my ghostly image of Dracula, or the description of impalement, but the fact that these thing...
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition?...
What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
It’s the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, ‘I know who you are. You can’t fool me.
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
Faith is simply whatever is real to us.
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