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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6a3e096 | Like most witches Lady Kore was left-handed, and her white sacrificial gown buttoned tightly from wrist to elbow with carved child-bone studs. Loose sleeves led to horrible mistakes. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| 5da7cc6 | Death in Love R. Garcia y Robertson | David G. Hartwell | ||
| 3268252 | I know what I'm talking about," she said sharply. "I'm Vice-President and a founding member of the Alliance for Ethical Lechery. Keeping an incubus is nothing less than sexual slavery." | David G. Hartwell | ||
| d101042 | The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Obscure and Discredited Diseases. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| 5e6bcf1 | Humans are always looking for explanations. I'm not interested in them. Is that food over there? Is there water over the hill? Where is there shade from the midday sun and a warm rock to rest on at night? These are the important questions. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| 134dd05 | though her gaze kept tracking nervously to the blue sky framed by the dome, expecting any minute steeply banking wings there, fire or smoke. How could people turn on happiness like a tap, and pretend the world was a bright and shiny place when they knew it wasn't at all? | David G. Hartwell | ||
| 12afd97 | Kore's personal arms were embroidered on the front--on a field gules, a vulture sable vorant a child--a black vulture on a red field devouring a child. Too gaudy for ordinary wear, but perfect for greeting barbarians at the gate. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| c4f24cd | Eros might be a demi-god, but he was young, flighty, and male, never pretending to be brave, or strong, or the least trustworthy. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| b2bca51 | Moments like this make me glad I am a man." "Playing with snakes and poisons does not appeal to you?" "Not the least." "Come, you've been in battle. That cannot be much better. What is it like to stand in the front rank, thrusting your boarding pike at some hulking wild-eyed berserk trying to slash you in half?" "That is when I wish I was a woman," he replied primly. At least Love did not lie." | David G. Hartwell | ||
| cd86255 | Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is most often a fantasy editor as well. Yet the most useful view for the working editor is to consider fantasy as conservative and pastoral, and SF as radical, technological, urban. There is a spectrum of variations, especially considering that for at least the last half century, many of the same authors have .. | publishing-industry sci-fi-fantasy | David G. Hartwell | |
| 620a14b | Your turn in the chair next time," said October. "I know," said November. He was pale, and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. "I like your stories. Mine are always too dark." "I don't think so," said October. "It's just that your nights are longer. And you aren't as warm." "Put it like that," said November, "and I feel better. I suppose we can't help who we are." "That's the spirit," said his brother. And they touched h.. | David G. Hartwell | ||
| abcb8dd | It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude." | David G. Hartwell | ||
| e3083da | The Art of Woo provides tools for a critically important | G.Richard Shell | ||
| 389a69a | A negotiation is an interactive communication process that may take place whenever we want something from someone else or another person wants something from us. | G. Richard Shell | ||
| 4f9ea9b | Half a dozen slaps the time. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| e86b3d9 | To Angola, quickly and with strength! | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 0d04829 | Proudly alone! | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 3295310 | Job lifted his revolver, fired, and hit a man - not the man he aimed at, by the way: anything that Job shot was perfectly safe. | H Rider Haggard | ||
| d905ff1 | if the moths would always carefully avoid the candle, how few burnt wings there would be! | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 3b03261 | On, on we went, till at last the east began to blush like the cheek of a girl. Then there came faint rays of primrose light, that changed presently to golden bars, through which the dawn glided out across the desert. The stars grew pale and paler still, till at last they vanished; the golden moon waxed wan, and her mountain ridges stood out against her sickly face like the bones on the cheek of a dying man. Then came spear upon spear of lig.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 6688f0e | Who and what was Ayesha, nay, what is Ayesha? An incarnate essence, a materialised spirit of Nature the unforeseeing, the lovely, the cruel and the immortal; ensouled alone, redeemable only by Humanity and its piteous sacrifice? Say you! I have done with speculations who depart to solve these mysteries. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 8c42b3e | money is a living moving force; leave it still, and it accumulates; expend it, and it gratifies every wish; save it, and that is best of all, and you hold in your hand a lever that will lift the world. I tell you that there is no height to which it cannot bring you, no gulf it will not bridge you. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| e7c95b4 | more | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 293fffe | Pharaoh | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 6b5b87b | Upper | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| b91eed4 | Lower | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 37d4169 | will | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 5fe4340 | gods | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| c035693 | provinces | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| c265e7a | No, | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| f8b9e4d | the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, with Khemu, the Maker of Mankind, were seen in the birth chamber, glowing like gold. Also Pharaoh issued a decree that wherever the name of the Queen Ahura was gra.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 82dd200 | Because all great Faiths are the same, changed a little to suit the needs of passing times and peoples. What taught that of Egypt, which, in a fashion, we still follow here? That hidden in a multitude of manifestations, one Power great and good, rules all the universes: that the holy shall inherit a life eternal and the vile, eternal death: that men shall be shaped and judged by their own hearts and deeds, and here and hereafter drink of th.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 17dac93 | the first were blue like the summer sky at even. Also on her breast was a mole of the length of a finger nail, which mole was shaped like the holy Sign of Life. Now Pharaoh and his house and the priests in every temple, and indeed all Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the .. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 64930fa | Also Pharaoh issued a decree that wherever the name of the Queen Ahura was graven in all the land, to it should be added the title "By the will of Amen, Mother of his Morning Star," and that a new hall should be built in the temple of Amen in the Northern Apt, and all about it carved the story of the coming of Prince Abi and of the vision of the Queen. But Ahura never lived to see this glorious place, since from the hour of her daughter's b.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| d4d9d03 | holy Sign of Life. Now Pharaoh and his house and the priests in every temple, and indeed all Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hat.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 65b8c97 | Sign of Life. Now Pharaoh and his house and the priests in every temple, and indeed all Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, .. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 557fd8b | nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, with Khemu, the Maker of Mankind, were seen in the birth chamber, glowing like gold. Also Pharaoh issued a decree that wherever the name of the Queen Ahura was graven in all the land, to it should be added the title "By the will of Amen, Mother of his Morning Star," and that a .. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 85c4c25 | Lands, | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 0accbff | truth I shall be dead. So is it with us all. How many millions have lain as I lie, and thought these thoughts and been forgotten! -- thousands upon thousands of years ago they thought them, those dying men of the dim past; and thousands on thousands of years hence will their descendants think them and be in their turn forgotten. 'As the breath of the oxen in winter, as the quick star that runs along the sky, as a little shadow that loses it.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| df013aa | in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, with Khemu, the Maker of Mankind, were seen in the birth chamber, glowing like gold. Also Pharaoh issued a decree that wherever the name of the Queen Ahura was graven in all the land, to it should be added the title "By the will of Amen, Mother of his Mornin.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 57c307f | and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, with Khemu, the Maker of Mankind, were seen in the birth chamber, glowing like gold. Also Pharaoh issued a decree that wherever the name of the Queen Ahura was graven in all the land, to it should be added th.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 26899a0 | all Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the goddesses, Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor, with Khemu, the Maker of Mankind, were seen in the birth chamber, glowing like gold... | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 802f4d2 | which mole was shaped like the holy Sign of Life. Now Pharaoh and his house and the priests in every temple, and indeed all Egypt went mad with joy, though there were many who in secret mourned over the sex of the infant, whispering that a man and not a woman should wear the Double Crown. But in public they said nothing, since the story of this child had gone abroad and folk declared that it was sent by the gods, and divine, and that the go.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 6746d64 | saved. But one day a sunrise will come when we shall be among those who are lost, and then others will watch those glorious rays, and grow sad in the midst of beauty, and dream of Death in the full glow of arising Life! | H. Rider Haggard |