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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c1029e | your reading will be even better then, after a lifetime of thought and effort, because it will come from conscious understanding. Grace attained like that is deeper and fuller than grace that comes freely, and furthermore, once you've gained it, it will never leave you. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 78809a0 | jimsonweed | Philip Pullman | ||
| f85b076 | Yes," Dr. Malone went on, "they know we're here. They answer back. And here goes the crazy part: you can't see them unless you expect to. Unless you put your mind in a certain state. You have to be confident and relaxed at the same time. You have to be capable--Where's that quotation ..." She reached into the muddle of papers on her desk and found a scrap on which someone had written with a green pen. She read: ' "... Capable of being in un.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| b0847de | where there are priests, there is fear of Dust. | Philip Pullman | ||
| d5748f7 | But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 4e76b2f | That's the duty of the old," said the Librarian, "to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old." They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious." | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1a59ceb | Aveva detto una volta a Serafina Pekkala che a lui volare non importava, che era soltanto un lavoro come un altro, ma non parlava sul serio. Levarsi in alto, con un buon vento alle spalle e un nuovo mondo davanti: cosa poteva esserci di meglio in questa vita? | Philip Pullman | ||
| 96a8956 | And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3959a91 | That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. | Philip Pullman | ||
| bc3d2fe | The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it. | Antonia Fraser | ||
| 2da8939 | She might be furious at such things, jealous too on a purely human level; but she would never consider that the position of mistress could or would be converted into that of wife. That to Isabella - or her daughter - was quite unthinkable. | Antonia Fraser | ||
| ea33ae3 | News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency--it had endured six during the past 150 years--and should give no further trouble. | england henryviii humour kinghenryviii maryqueenofscots queen scotland | Alison Weir | |
| 4de8f96 | the U.S. connection to Israel as one of the most critical issues in the world today, and one of the most urgent for Americans to understand. The | Alison Weir | ||
| 68e8fc0 | Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life. | Alison Weir | ||
| 3f468e4 | After the dedication, Eleanor saw Bernard privately, probably at her own request. He came prepared to offer more spiritual comfort, thinking that she too might be suffering qualms of conscience over Vitry, but he was surprised to learn that she was not. Nevertheless, several matters were indeed troubling her, not the least the problems of her sister. She asked him to use his influence with the Pope to have the excommunication on Raoul and P.. | eleanor-of-aquitaine fear-of-women history sexuality | Alison Weir | |
| a3c8e0b | Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact date is not recorded--she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King--the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne--her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future... | history pregnancy royalty women | Alison Weir | |
| adbd991 | An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault. | queen-mary-i single-mindedness | Alison Weir | |
| b75a76c | This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an effigy of the deceased in life above, and another depicting his or her rotting corpse below--a grisly reminder of the end of all flesh. | Alison Weir | ||
| a74dee4 | Since arriving in England, Katherine had come to know a freedom she had never dreamed of in Spain, where young women were kept in seclusion and forced to live almost like cloistered nuns. They wore clothes that camouflaged their bodies and veiled their faces in public. Etiquette at the Spanish court was rigid, and even smiling was frowned upon. But in England, unmarried women enjoyed much more freedom: their gowns were designed to attract, .. | tudor-england womens-rights | Alison Weir | |
| ee439ac | Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in. | history | Alison Weir | |
| 0595052 | She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, 'Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!' Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame. | Alison Weir | ||
| 4860b96 | At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates' wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later. | Alison Weir | ||
| fcc79c8 | Do you listen to the wolves, Seoman?" Jiriki asked. "It's hard n-not to." "They sing such fierce songs." The Sitha shook his head. "They are like your mortal kind. They sing of where they have been, and what they have seen and scented. They tell each other where the elk are running, and who has taken whom to mate, but mostly they are merely crying 'I am! Here I am!' " | Tad Williams | ||
| 2ea6c7e | A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid. | humor wolf | Tad Williams | |
| 9098e5f | If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad. | Tad Williams | ||
| bb8231a | As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man. | Tad Williams | ||
| 31c0727 | A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence! | Tad Williams | ||
| 9cd7492 | The dragon's blood had changed him, he realized. Not in a magical way, like in one of Shem Horsegroom's old stones - he couldn't understand the speech of animals, or see a hundred leagues. Well, that was not quite true. When the snow had stopped for a moment today, the white valleys of the Waste had leaped into clarity, seeming as near as the folds ma blanket, but stretching all the way to the dark blur of faraway Aldheorte Forest. For a mo.. | Tad Williams | ||
| 5501169 | But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious. | Tad Williams | ||
| 524ab43 | Fear goes where it is invited. | Tad Williams | ||
| 50565b2 | It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel... | past present | Tad Williams | |
| 3f53f50 | For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it? | world | Tad Williams | |
| 1175bb0 | No existe lo que se llama "falta de temor", Simon, a menos que un hombre este loco. Doctor Morgenes" | Tad Williams | ||
| 0fb93f7 | Un hombre que posee sabiduria no se sienta a esperar que el mundo aparezca ante el pedazo a pedazo para probar su existencia! Binabik | Tad Williams | ||
| 6f615c2 | Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros. Binabik | Tad Williams | ||
| c0ef802 | Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra. Binabik | Tad Williams | ||
| 62dcf1d | Era un simple punto brillante en la horrorosa tormenta..., pero incluso un brillo solitario puede devolver sano y salvo a un viajero a su casa. | Tad Williams | ||
| b641953 | When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them--your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends? | Tad Williams | ||
| 629c6fd | Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle! | Tad Williams | ||
| 2c2c9ee | I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.) | Tad Williams | ||
| 081d640 | We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This | Tad Williams | ||
| b8951bb | Welcome to the Information Jungle. | inspirational sci-fi | Tad Williams | |
| bbc7cce | Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles. | truth | Tad Williams | |
| 4be8c3f | During its timeless hours of movement and inspection, as it floated on the number-winds and learned from their shape and force, it had become aware of something else, something so far from the conceptual map of the environment it had originally been given as to briefly constitute a new danger to the Nemesis program's logical integrity. | Tad Williams |