History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

Be Patient to become a Patent

When the watermelons were as large as a child’s head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

Bana hiç acımayın… Biz, sıradan insanlar, yalnız bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyayı bırakıp göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de bıraktıkları eserler, yıkılıp kaybolduğu zaman.

Damn, you’re good,’ he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn’t much for flowery speech, Alesandra thought with a smile. It didn’t matter. She was arrogantly proud of herself because she’d pleased him....

If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O’Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in “Titanic Rhasody.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

Take up and read, take up and read.

He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he...

Show us not the aim without the way.For ends and means on earth are so entangledThat changing one, you change the other too;Each different path brings other ends in view

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Thought you didn’t like red hair.”One of Drew’s dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma’s shoulder. “Must have me confused with someone else, but I’m not surprised. Seems to happen to most...

Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Horeb bent over me and ran his hand down my neck, not stopping when his fingers reached my chest. I jerked backward. “What are you doing?”His eyes were black and intense. “A little taste before...

At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses.

He watched her for her reaction, or possibly watched her just to watch, his eyes hooded by his lashes and his mouth impassive. A faceless man—such as the one she had dreamed of since she...

I am Calumny Spinks.Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose.It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life.

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unsuspecting doll.

She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else’s happiness—no—their...

He knew then he was in danger. Very real danger. No woman had ever given him a gift or spoken to him as she did. Or tied him in these breathless knots. Or left him...

Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by...

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before...

And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle

Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that would remain with Stefania and her family. The disappearance of her baby sister...

I’ve fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was...

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

Resting my head on the high-backed chair, I silently marvel at emotion so strong itcan quite literally chase away all reason and good sense. It is something I have neverexperienced. I pity Frances for being...

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable...

You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.

When extremists come together extreme things happen.

He lowered his voice. “You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man’s face.”I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. “My father was an ealdorman, and...

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is ‘massive’ and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable.” ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could have looked and not seen the love that had glowed there, the blind...

Conformity is deformity

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Another red-letter day in history.

It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward.

Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.

Git’er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield

The New Testament is not a historical document.