There is no obvious reason for voices and visions. My temperature is near normal and my pain relief is the usual moderate regime. Later the hallies, as I think of them, become less threatening, but mo...
There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, inbuilt, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected...
The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light o...
The year is now 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light o...
The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.
The world beyond the glass is the world of masculine action. Everything she sees is what a man has built. But at each turn-off, each junction, women are waiting to know their fate.
The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain—the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out...
The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduc...
Some said the world would end in 1533. Last year had its adherents too. Why not this year? There is always somebody ready to claim that these are the end times, and nominate his neighbor as the Antich...
Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my serpentine enemy. Sion says, she goes to it with her brother; he says, what...
Show me where it says, in the Bible, Purgatory. Show me where it says relics, monks, nuns. Show me where it says Pope.
She was a bossy little woman who approached life with her elbows out.
Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed?Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixe...
People romance about their children long before they are born—long before, and long after. They name them and rename them. They see them as their second chances, a chance to get it right this time, as...
Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.
Oh, you are not disappointing, Henry says. But the moment you are, I will let you know.
Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
Martyr More,’ he says. ‘The word is in Rome that he and Fisher are to be made saints.
Let us say, his will is convinced, but not his conscience.