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.