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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e3d0030 | Belle laide, Athenais calls me,' I replied with a little shrug. The expression was usually used to describe a woman who was arresting despite the plainness of her looks. | common-beauty french | Kate Forsyth | |
| e9beef8 | I wanted to rest my eyes on green meadows. I wanted to sit on green grass under the shade of a green tree. I wanted to eat cool green salads. I longed for arugula tossed with olive oil and parmesan, for asparagus tips dripping with melted butter, for a salad of sweet and bitter green leaves. Most of all, I longed for fish and parsley soup. | leafy-greens pascalina | Kate Forsyth | |
| 1ad9548 | I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have no time to be a wet-nurse for a bantling.' To my surprise, he did not flush or draw away in embarrassment. He grinned and winked at me, as if to say I could suckle him any time, and to my horror I felt myself grow red. | charlotte-and-charles charlotte-rose-de-la-force suggestive | Kate Forsyth | |
| 2e195ba | I did not really listen, fixing my eyes on the nearest tapestry, which showed a white unicorn sitting with its front hooves in the lap of a fair-haired maiden in a gorgeous medieval gown. The embroidered grass was studded with flowers, and the two overarching trees were hung with pomegranates. Small beasts- rabbits and squirrels and badgers- watched from the shelter of the forest, not noticing the hunters creeping closer with their dogs and.. | images tapestry | Kate Forsyth | |
| 08b0fee | Her papa called her 'chiacchere' because he said she chattered away all day, just like a magpie. He had all sorts of funny names for her: 'fiorellina', my little flower; 'abelie', which meant honeysuckle; and 'topolina', my sweet little mouse. Margherita's mother only called her 'piccolina', my little one, or 'mia cara Margherita,' my darling daisy. | father-and-daughter italian margherita mother-and-daughter parents pascalina pet-names | Kate Forsyth | |
| ca28f2a | Fairy tales have been with us for a very long time. | kate-forsyth storytelling | Kate Forsyth | |
| e063954 | The Coven of Witches, however, believed only in the natural forces of the world. Everyone was free to seek their own path to wisdom and to worship in whatever way they pleased. If they prayed, it was to Ea, who encompassed both light and darkness, life and death, the creative and the destructive. Ea was neither good nor evil, male nor female. Ea was both and neither. | Kate Forsyth | ||
| 33e2f30 | Footmen stood stiffly with trays laden with foaming goblets and plates filled with tiny delicacies, such as sauteed scallops, salt cod and caviar on potato pancakes, basil palmiers, and roasted brie with gooseberries. | Kate Forsyth | ||
| 446ebc9 | drew her coat close around her and tried to slip through the crowd, all converging on the | Kate Forsyth | ||
| 1b2f3ad | Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. Cerulean, azure, blue. Shadowy, sombre, secret. Voluptuous, sensuous, amorous. Kiss, hiss, abyss. Some words sounded dangerous. Pagan. Tiger. Some words seemed to shine. Crystal. Glissade. Some words changed their meaning as I g.. | words | Kate Forsyth | |
| a8b2dbc | I was afraid this day would never come," she whispered. He cupped her face in his hands. "I told you love works magic." | love true-love | Kate Forsyth | |
| f6fb3db | EFFORTS HAD BEEN MADE BY Coruscanti who cared about such things to preserve some of the structures the B'ankora had built and lived in for more than fifty generations. In the rush to relocate the species' sole survivors and complete the construction of the Celestial Power facility, the request to create a museum had been denied. Regardless, some of the B'ankora's original paths remained, winding through gardened parcels, around landscaped a.. | James Luceno | ||
| 35dd225 | petty | James Luceno | ||
| 9c56abc | Providing power is the only way forward." She" | James Luceno | ||
| 1254bb2 | CHRONICLES | James Luceno | ||
| 29f5bb6 | There it was again, Plagueis thought: the deceptive cadence; the use of flattery, charm, and self-effacement as if rapier feints in a duel. The need to be seen as guileless, unassuming, empathetic. A youth with no desire to enter politics, and yet born for it. | James Luceno | ||
| f177844 | Abraxin had been strong in the dark side during Bane's lifetime, when it had been aligned with Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness, but Plagueis could sense that the power had waned significantly in the intervening centuries. | James Luceno | ||
| c8a659a | Blue-skinned, yellow-eyed bipeds from the far side of the Core had been the first to colonize Saleucami, which meant "oasis" in their tongue, for the world was just that among those they had visited during the long journey from Wroona. Since then had come hearty groups of Weequay, Gran, and Twi'leks, in flight from conflicts or in search of hardscrabble isolation, and up to the tasks of farming the colorless ground for moisture and subsisti.. | James Luceno | ||
| bff42fe | Already the galaxy had been shaped by the birth of one, and henceforth would be reshaped by the death of the other. But had the change been felt and recognized elsewhere? Were his sworn enemies aware that the Force had shifted irrevocably? Would it be enough to rouse them from self-righteousness? He hoped not. For now the work of vengeance could begin in earnest. | James Luceno | ||
| 0148dab | Plagueis nodded. "Darth Bane advised: One day the Republic will fall and the Jedi will be wiped out. But that will not happen until we are ready to seize that power for ourselves." | James Luceno | ||
| acda1bf | Palpatine stared at the floor, then genuflected, uttering, "It is my will to join my destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords." Plagueis extended his left hand to touch him on the crown of the head. "Then it is done. From this day forward, the truth of you, now and forever more, will be Sidious." | James Luceno | ||
| 2ab80fc | constant vigilance | James Luceno | ||
| ab2068e | Just now the Joint Chiefs of the Empire's military were gathered--Admiral Antonio Motti, General Cassio Tagge, Rear Admirals Ozzel, Jerjerrod, and others--along with several top officers from COMPNOR, including Director Armand Isard, ISB deputy director Harus Ison, and Colonel Wullf Yularen. Naval Intelligence was represented by Vice Admirals Rancit and Screed, | James Luceno | ||
| ef5c514 | Galen didn't know anything about Tarkin, other than that he had served in the Republic Navy before being appointed adjutant general. A tall man some ten or fifteen years older than Galen, he had sunken cheeks, a high brow, and a look of penetrating intelligence. | James Luceno | ||
| 15fa6b4 | You don't mind that the war will go on and on?" "Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it's up to people like you to end it." Tarkin nodded. "And so we shall." | James Luceno | ||
| 2bfbb57 | My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs. | James Luceno | ||
| 1bcf6b0 | Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain. | James Luceno | ||
| d2646ec | Consider the mind-set of the anarchist who plans to sacrifice himself for a cause. For the weeks, months, possibly years leading up to the day he straps a thermal detonator to his chest and executes his task, he has lived in and strengthened by the secret he carries, knowing the toll his act will take. So it has been for the Sith, residing in a secret, sacred place of knowledge for one thousand years, and knowing the toll our acts will take.. | James Luceno | ||
| ac6a70b | don't need to remind any of you what Tarkin did at the end of the war when there weren't Jedi around to keep a lid on the violence and retribution. We wouldn't be aboard this ship otherwise. The Emperor is going to win-now the populations of the galaxy until the only ones left are the ones he can control. And he and Vader and Tarkin are going to accomplish that with an army of steadfast recruits who might as well be clones for the little in.. | James Luceno | ||
| 5065f05 | The Empire was quickly becoming the , a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they united, all differences set aside. It was almost heartening to witness the dawn of hope, as cautious and fragile as it was. | hope | James Luceno | |
| 940fab8 | Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino's planetwide ocean, which perhaps explained why they were no more reluctant about providing game animals for Sojourn than they were about supplying shovel-handed clones to work in the mines of inhospitable Subterrel. Damask | James Luceno | ||
| 184c463 | You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples. | slaughter violence | James Luceno | |
| a31ca64 | Mathematics isn't just science, it is poetry - our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries of the galaxy. But the signs and symbols and equations sentients employ to express these connections are not discoveries but the teasing out of secrets that have always existed. | poetry | James Luceno | |
| 233cb7d | You will be in charge of that, Moff Tarkin. Or should I say Grand Moff Tarkin." Tarkin's gaped in genuine surprise. "Grand Moff?" | James Luceno | ||
| 5616dfa | The Emperor's furtive smile gave Tarkin pause. Had he actually seen through Rancit's and the dissidents' schemes from the beginning? Had the events of the past few weeks been less about unmasking a cell of traitors than testing Tarkin's ability to foil the plot and to work effectively with Vader? | James Luceno | ||
| fa473d0 | Good," the Emperor said. "Let that be a lesson to all of them"--he narrowed his eyes at Tarkin--"including the one who apparently got away." | James Luceno | ||
| f1370bd | One last thing, Vice Admiral," Vader said as Rancit was being escorted aft down the walkway. "Moff Tarkin sends his regards." | James Luceno | ||
| 30641b4 | Tarkin had lost all sense of how long he had been standing in the viewport bay when Vader's fury brought him back to the moment. "This freighter is to be tractored aboard the Executrix for a thorough inspection. The crew is to be kept in detention until I'm through interrogating them." | James Luceno | ||
| 1163a75 | The Truant is no longer on the wanted list, sir. Minimal collateral casualties. | James Luceno | ||
| d338866 | And not surprisingly, under Tarkin's rule, Eriadu finally achieved the celebrity it had been clamoring for. It became the rising star, the planet other eager-to-be-exploited worlds began looking up to. | James Luceno | ||
| 8348cd1 | Seated in the copilot's chair, Tarkin watched Vader expectantly as the Predator emerged from hyperspace. "Full ahead," the Dark Lord said. Tarkin was glad to oblige, though he saw nothing through the viewports but star-strewn space and nothing on the sensor screens but background noise." | James Luceno | ||
| ee23d34 | Thank you, Sheev," Tarkin said, with obvious sincerity, and using Palpatine's given name. "I will do what's best for my homeworld, and for the Republic--in any manner you deem fit." Palpatine's words about Naboo and Eriadu turned out to be prophetic." | James Luceno | ||
| a4767b8 | They stood together at the base of a sheer wall four meters high without ledges or toeholds and with nowhere to go. Below, battle droids advanced from both ends of the street, killing the few Lokori that remained standing, painting the street green with their blood and joining forces at the bottom of the fall. Everyone Galen and Lyra had run with was on the ground, dead or wounded. | James Luceno | ||
| d4b814b | Tarkin was surprised when Mas Amedda charged the car to descend. "I would have expected the Emperor to reside closer to the top," Tarkin said. "He does," the vizier allowed. "But we're not proceeding directly to the Emperor. We're going to meet first with Lord Vader." | James Luceno |