There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.
The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club
Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.
You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
How may times can you lose the one you love?
Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
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...
Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.
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
I am looking through a lace curtain at a dead man's feet. I am ten years old, the mist is rising on a fall morning in 1944 in Sawyer, Georgia, and I am standing on a front porch painted gray with whit...
Sie denkt: Sie sagen einfach nur Worte und was sind Worte anderes als Geräusche, die diese Männer aus Atem formen, gewichtslose Dämpfe, die sie in die Küchenluft schicken, wo sie sich auflösen und ste...
Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once...
Think ere you speak