That’s what you are. Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.
That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter...
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voi...
She was afraid of John Faa, and what she was most afraid of was his kindness.
Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening Royal Mail zeppelin for London.
Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don’t understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.
Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we enjoy in Middlemarch is the interplay between what the characters do and what we...
Lady Harborough... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from pove...
It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.
In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens,...
If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care the care! of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat...
His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could t...
Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time? said Lyra. Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.
By the light of a candle, he composed a letter, saying everything as briefly as possible:
But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that.
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it woul...
Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that.- from: 'The Twelve Brothers
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the ground wailing and shuddering, and Pantalaimon beside her became a wolf and howle...