Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity
...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at al...
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...
Think ere you speak
Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.
Anything from Kipling
Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
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.
The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club
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.
Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...