Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered.

Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on...

Look. Isn’t he beautiful?”Drew’s expression softened. “Ah, Nellie. He’s bald, pink, and has no teeth. What’s so beautiful about that?”Nellie’s laugh tinkled out like musical chimes while she covered the babe back up.

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the...

The prophecy has come true! You put the sea salt in the soup…You are the one!

Every day you live is a lesson in itself.

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?

You are entitled to feel all the bitterness and hatred you were taught. You are entitled to carry with you the pain and sorrow, the longing and disappointment. They will happily accompany you through life....

Her breath caught when his erection shot to rigid. “Merciful Father, Ye’re like a stallion with a mare in heat.

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell...

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?’ She shakes her head. ‘All of that, and the world didn’t learn anything. Look around....

They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn’t that they had miraculous powers; that they had escaped the ghettos and gas chamges...

Calmly, slowly, she reached behind with her left hand and came up against — yes, fabric. Fine linen, to be precise. So far, so good: she was inside a wardrobe, after all. The only problem...

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and...

Where are you going?””To get my Bible.””Right now? You can’t get your Bible out right now! I’m, I’m, we’re just about to…”She’d never be able to go through with this if he got out his...

Yes, sometimes we must lose something…someone…before we realize its worth.

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

She was in big trouble now.”You stupid man,” she said to the body on the floor. “Why did you have to lunge at me like that? Why couldn’t you have left well enough alone? I...

People perish. Books are immortal.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

Ridley nodded. ‘She told me I couldn’t ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn’t be safe.’ ‘Safe?’ Uncle Bob stopped rocking and took the pipe from between his teeth. ‘She started...

The word “We” is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the...

These trials aren’t about revenge. They’re about justice. Don’t you want justice, Rose Justice?

Sneezeweed, Drew?”He grinned. “Jealous?””Surprised.””Remind me, and I’ll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips.””Promise?””Absolutely.

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our passage. Their black feathers are stark as soot against the white road and...

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh.”~ Gustaf Ræliksen

Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.

Do the walls understand English?

The pain was there, an ache in his chest he imagined he would feel every time he thought of Hannah. And he thought of her every day. Dreamed of her about as often. But lately,...

Were ye sent by the fairy folk? Do no’ lie to me.

At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93...

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

Am I Dead?”Had she fallen to her doom and this was all an elaborate fantasy? Was this the place between life and death? Her eyes welled up with tears and she ran towards the man...

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture. ‘Where are we?” he asked Livia. “How can a whole other room be...

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn’t standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spelled things however they heard...

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement.””Fifteen thousand!””He says you’re a great deal of trouble.”She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh.”I am.””I thought so.” He leveled Drew a look. “If I...

…it was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person’s real experiences.

You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one’s soul and put back together. I want to know...

If I kiss you now, I won’t be able to stop.