He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

Watching him, his hands buried in his pockets—to keep from circling her neck she supposed—she couldn’t help but marvel at the curious mix of Southern courtesy and male arrogance, the natural assumption he shouldered of...

Learning to pipe isn’t easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.

We are exiles in Time’s abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

I love you enough to keep you from dying with me… ~ Dane de Falaise

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

Heart…Soul…Words

I will be a historical painter.

There’s a saying,” Aeneas said: “Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts.” He spoke wryly. “Horses, particularly.

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know.

You next,” he said. “Out of those clothes and into bed.”She nodded but didn’t move from Sally’s side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require?”I’m...

What’s good for reform is bad for the reformers

I’m not a very good writer. But I’m a HELLUVA re-writer.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the...

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn’t mine by right!

He knew what he had found here, a precious treasure that had remained hidden away for so long. To the right man, she could give more happiness and fulfilment than any amount of gold, or...

Love’s stories written in love’s richest books.To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: “Of what country are...

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a...

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides …

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I’d have to say I’d like to live in the...

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn’t a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic ‘ideals’ of America-Jewry, Europe pits its metaphysical ideas, its faith in its Destiny, its ethical principles, its heroism. Fearlessly, Europe falls in for battle,...

Like a spider web; the threads of her life had been woven since she was young, but she had no part in the loom’s process.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of...

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our...

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal’d from you. Do not judge by...

I sat there, staring at the television set, the images of her playing over and over, my memories right there on the screen. I was overcome with a deep sense of loss. The tears streamed...

You were kidnapped not?””I was kidnapped.””You were forced not into marriage?””I was forced into marriage.””You want not an annulment?””I want not an annulment.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.

Her nerves licked her palms.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term ‘entrepreneur’ but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the...

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right...

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

You do what you are

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

What? Enough for me? Gabriel, you are everything.