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...
...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America's founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white men who laid the whips upon their backs. W...
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.
Where are these fucking guns coming from?
Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
At the edge of the still, dark pool that was the sea, at the brimming edge of freedom where no boat was to be seen, she spoke the first words of the few they were to exchange. ‘I cannot swim. You know...
Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.
But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when ti...
Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
Franchement vu la façon dont j'ai été traitée par les gens dits civilisés, il me tarde finalement d'aller vivre chez les sauvages.
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.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
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