If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)
I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Even the most egregious captive state, bound and gagged on her damp bunk, felt eerily familiar to her. With nothing to do but lie there and think of things, she reflected that captivity took many diff...
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity
The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to gover...
The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.
Where have they gone? Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whisperin...
She had wanted more than she could have.She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her.In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a sil...
All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.
I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.
History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
I want to... have fun with writing again. Enjoy my work, enjoy playing with the language and characters like a sculptor plays with clay. But there's this manic focus on numbers--how many books have yo...
Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we...
I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, an...
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