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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba7cb18 | For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout her life: books. | Nancy Goldstone | ||
| 041c9ae | The vast majority of Huguenots supported the king and the royal family and wished to live in peace, he explained. The problem was that the Protestant movement had been more or less hijacked by extremists who desired political power. This radical element was using the general unhappiness with the Guises' governance, and especially with their vicious policy of persecution, to forward their own ambitions. | Nancy Goldstone | ||
| a60e06b | Always. BATTLETECH ERAS The BattleTech universe is a living, vibrant entity that grows each year as more sourcebooks and fiction are published. | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| 5f55d09 | ruler | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| 071ada9 | Terran | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| a87ea0e | looked like a small sea of quicksilver was flowing | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| 8b34511 | The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty. "--James Madison." | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| 7f3d522 | What cannot be won by force of arms can often be achieved through cunning, deceit, or by a concealed blade slipped into an enemy's back. --Nicolai | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| d9a4827 | The less government we have the better--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual. . . . --Politics Ralph Waldo Emerson C.E. 1844 | William H. Keith Jr. | ||
| 44fc8ca | I would forfeit the very surety of my soul to be the man who brings that look upon your face. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 8f23275 | In jewels and brocades and a whirl of musk, Alice flounced triumphantly out of her chariot, her three little dogs frisking and barking after her. She raised her thickly painted face to the Duke. | Anya Seton | ||
| 9db117f | you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you. | Anya Seton | ||
| 4ab737c | the while there were smiles on the two faces that told of their pleasure in dancing and their happiness at being together. Jill watched, wide-eyed. 'They are absolutely brilliant! Oh, how I wish me mam and dad could see them, they'd be so proud.' 'Well they | Joan Jonker | ||
| 78b1485 | two back doors close to each | Joan Jonker | ||
| b905ea8 | ago that yer were going to buy the biggest hat in Liverpool | Joan Jonker | ||
| c1e4c6c | It just shows what strange things life throws at yer. It doesn't do to fall out with someone and say yer'll never speak to them again as long as yer live, because yer never know whether some day yer'll have to eat your words. | Joan Jonker | ||
| d021669 | It's only when ye're older that yer look back and think how stupid it was to be wishing yer life away.' Molly | Joan Jonker | ||
| 92cb2e8 | Growing old is something no one can change. It happens to everyone, rich or poor. All the money in the world can't keep yer young. But it's the way yer grow old that makes the difference. Some people give up the ghost in their fifties and sixties, while others grow old gracefully. And | Joan Jonker | ||
| c1e242d | And Mike's promised to come.' Doreen | Joan Jonker | ||
| 4aa8a2a | neighbours | Joan Jonker | ||
| fcc97df | Wat was a man of action, and his mind darted to practical matters. | Anya Seton | ||
| 753f570 | Caitlin, I was born to worry about you. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 0a95111 | all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity. | Anya Seton | ||
| b47f4d4 | She had not, as yet, enough introspection to realize that part of his fascination for her had arisen from his unpredictability, and her conception of him as a mysterious being from a superior world who had miraculously condescended to desire her. Nor did she realize how tightly she was enmeshed by his physical attraction, a bondage woven not only from the magnetism of his body but from the very fear and pain he caused her | Anya Seton | ||
| aaadc90 | How can he be so cruel to me at times--and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else | Anya Seton | ||
| ef08431 | Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could..." | religion historical-fiction | Anya Seton | |
| 4b43e5b | Nas Gospodin nije rekao da necemo biti izlozeni olujama i jadima, ili da necemo dozivljavati nesrece, nego je rekao: Sve to nece te nadjacati! | Anya Seton | ||
| ef3fcbb | The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel... | Anya Seton | ||
| 25fb4cc | And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. | Anya Seton | ||
| a758f9d | You've read some of my stuff?" he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, " 'The Raven,' I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird." | Anya Seton | ||
| ece0d68 | There's a fire been lit that's not so easy to put out, | Anya Seton | ||
| 611a01e | My lord - the Duke of Lancaster does not wed his paramour, and one of common stock - how could the King countenance this?" "Well, he has," said John dryly. Richard at present would countenance far more than that to please his eldest uncle and annoy his youngest one." | Anya Seton | ||
| 2b082d5 | Twas the moment deep When we are conscious of the secret dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green . . . Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where . . . She | Anya Seton | ||
| 735cffe | there was a man and a woman who came together naked and unashamed, proudly bestowing on each other the beauty of their bodies and thereby finding ineffable joy. | Anya Seton | ||
| 3462af8 | though she seemed made for the pleasures of the flesh, there yet was a sense of spiritual striving about her, and a healthiness of mind and body which pleased him who spent so much of his time with the | Anya Seton | ||
| ddfe902 | If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? | Anya Seton | ||
| 1d0e7e0 | If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? | Anya Seton | ||
| b15bb6b | I came here to conquer you. And here I stay, a willing prisoner of your heart. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| dc6cb8e | She has something else - a great deal else," said Alice Perrers' soft laughing voice from the corner, "and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won't be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision - and shall." | Anya Seton | ||
| 1db6a4a | Richard looked at the bow-tips that twinkled in the sun, the arrows being slowly notched and pointing down the field at him. He flung his head back and dug the golden spurs of knighthood into his horse's flanks. He galloped straight towards the revel lines and shouted, "So now I shall be your leader, as you wished me to!" | Anya Seton | ||
| ce7ddc2 | to be ME, Merewyn. These | Anya Seton | ||
| 01d2dff | I only know that from wherever it is that we're going, there can be no turning back. | Anya Seton | ||
| 76b3d30 | But I'm not repentant!" The Duke's voice rose suddenly high and passionate. "I love the woman--she is my life--all my bliss." | Anya Seton | ||
| 7c1256d | Truly a wife is God's gift. | Anya Seton |