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.

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark...

Love was something he had banished from his life years ago out of necessity, but she made him yearn to be loved.

Are ye hungry?” she asked, her voice soothing.His stomach growled. “I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw.”She chuckled. “Fortunately, we do no’ have to go to such extremes.

historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting...

He turned to look at her. “We’ve some talking to do.””Didn’t we do that on the plane ride over here?””I doona remember talking. I remember kissing, touching, and many orgasms, but no talking.

The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”Katie O’Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in “Titanic Rhapsody

people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth.

Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it…

I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving…..

James Lamont. It’s my name. You’ll need it if you’re to curse me properly.

There is a lot of historical information that you might have not have ever picked up if you were a baseball fan like we are.

I’ll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

Lord Randall barreled inside, brandishing his cane in Drew’s face.”You beggarly knave, I was told this marriage was in name only! Who gave you permission to consummate the vows?””Theodore Hopkin, governor of this colony, representative...

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.