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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6556273 | Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77 | dependence respect | David Hewson | |
| 31acd0b | Mine was the shortest. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 8be9a21 | In order to survive, Tom and the Spook must form an alliance with Grimalkin, the deadly witch assassin of the most powerful of the Pendle clans. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 6cd8f6c | Bryony | Joseph Delaney | ||
| a9f2f39 | She was holding the Starblade. It was Alice. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 440cfd3 | failed. I'm weary--weary | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 482eff4 | What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded. 'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| a653244 | We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter -- in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin. | power self-confidence spook-s-books the-wardstone-chronicles | Joseph Delaney | |
| 5570cbc | My name is Slither. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 1d6ab1c | When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 0b221af | My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 2c30ed8 | Why does it have to be like this? Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all? | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 9b1912e | Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 94626fc | Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 3b6590b | I'll find nobody for you, witch!" the man retorted." | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 3bad166 | For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| de329cb | Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 3e22dbc | They were tucking into big plates of bacon and eggs | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 50c5faf | When the good die, it sometimes unshackles evil that would otherwise have been kept in check! | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 9bb3522 | Believe that you can do something and half the battle is won before you start." -Bill Arkwright" | self-esteem win | Joseph Delaney | |
| 21db5f8 | You're shivering with cold. I'll make you a cup of hot soup to warm your bones. That'll have to do for now - I'll cook you a nice big meal later.' I was trembling more than shivering, upset by what had happened in Morgan's room, but gradually I began to calm down. I did as I was told and warmed my hands at the fire, watching my boots begin to steam. 'It's good to see you've still got all your fingers!' Meg said. I smiled. 'Where's Mr Gregor.. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 05b6ca1 | And, finally, what about the reality of spiritual experience? Are saints and madmen equally deluded? Are witches' sabbats the same as alien abductions? Is exorcism merely a form of psychotherapy, or is it something more? Something... other? What is evil? Can everything we experience as human beings be explained away by a tranquil, Carl Sagan-like belief in science? Was Carl comforted in his final moments by reciting the Second Law of Thermo.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 279e843 | Is science a "candle in the dark"?... Or is it simply whistling in the dark?" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 2de107f | It was Lippmann who gave us the concept of the "stereotype" (1922), which was basically a continuation of the Jungian concept of the archetype (1919) by other means. To Lippmann, the world outside our borders exists in a different space, consciously, from our own. We develop notions about life in those countries, their cultures, attitudes, and values, without ever going there. Yet, their political situation affects our own; they exert a pol.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 79763c8 | one of the famous shew stones of the Elizabethan magician and spy, John Dee, was of Aztec obsidian brought back from the New World by Spanish conquistadores. The Aztecs used the obsidian shew stone in an identical fashion to that used by Dee (and, later, Joseph Smith), as a kind of crystal ball. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 928145e | Elizabethan magician and spy, Dee also became convinced that a Welsh prince had "discovered" America centuries before Columbus.24" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 760fb1a | Halloween (known among European pagans as Samhain, pronounced "sa-wen") is traditionally the day when the dead return to visit the living, similar to the Asian "Wandering Souls" festival mentioned above. It is the day when the gate between the living and the dead is open, a favorite day for evocations of spirits and demons. Candlemas, on the other hand, is the day of "quickening," when the earth begins to wake from its slumber, a day of pro.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 883ff45 | Jack Parsons was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a captain in the US Army. His name was also Marvel Parsons. That's right: his father was Captain Marvel. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 62536e6 | Levenda's study is broad and deep, a life's work that runs to volumes. What distinguishes it from other efforts, such as those of Pasolini, is not merely its comprehensiveness. Rather, it is Levenda's realization that a matrix of politics and violence is incapable of explaining the demented century that shuddered to an end in Manhattan, not so long ago. What's needed is a third dimension, and that dimension, he tells us, is "the occult." By.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 11936e4 | It is better to rely on one's self alone. In my cat-life, all our training is founded on suspicion. I can see that it is just the same in the life of men. Those who confide in others are only betrayed. It is better to keep silent and to be treacherous one's self. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 38ff855 | Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| ea49519 | The physical world has its boundaries; only the psychic is 'oceanic,' as the author of Civilization and its Discontents puts it. That is why mankind's next bold step must be the materialization of the psychic." -- "General von Greehahn" (General Reinhard Gehlen) in Agent of the Devil by Hans Habe 23" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 32b0e18 | The involvement of intelligence agents in the field of Egyptian archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, and other odd pursuits will be discussed in a later chapter. For now, it suffices to point out that psychological warfare, literature, archaeology, and the paranormal not only make for strange bedfellows: in the war years of the last century it was positively an orgy. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| c2f4556 | Using selective evidence out of context and ignoring evidence that doesn't fit in with basic assumptions, it is possible to attack virtually everything and sound knowledgeable doing it. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| b5da4b9 | It was plain to see the toll the extraordinary climb had taken--for an hour after Bandoola reached the top, his legs continued to quiver with involuntary contractions. What a relief | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| eea0b57 | When someone else in the village tried to extort money from Williams over damaged banana trees, he felt it was a sure sign they were reentering civilization | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 3625f25 | In part due to the 270 bridges they built from local materials, lightweight prefabricated sections were available to construct the largest known Bailey bridge, which was built across the Chindwin at Kalewa in December 1944. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| bbee9f3 | The world he loved was not just disappearing; it was already gone. The British Empire would shrink away from its borders. Williams had lost the Burmese members of his family, and the elephants were next. The effect of the separation would be momentous. The bond he had forged with the animals was something so large and deep he could frame it only in spiritual terms, saying they were his "religion." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 129296b | Though he had always thought logging elephants had a good life, he found himself now pining for them to have something better. The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. Even with this reassuring | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| e885533 | Many men who had spent their working lives in the East were terrified of going home to England and living on a pension. Gone were the spacious home, the servants, the ponies, the cars, and the memberships in every club. But | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| ecf12d2 | Unfortunately, by then, he had already seen the last of his beloved elephant Bandoola. The great tusker had been killed before war's end, in circumstances that would haunt Williams for the rest of his life. It was, he would always maintain, nothing short of murder | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 9a84261 | When Williams unleashed his fury on Po Toke, the old mahout, sobbing, admitted that Bandoola was dead. He claimed he did not know what had happened. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 768a14b | Two riders led Williams to the body. "There lay Bandoola," Williams would write. He stared in disbelief at the rotting corpse, not quite ready to comprehend that his hero was gone. Bandoola's right tusk had been hacked off, and the left remained plowed into the earth where his head had fallen. A single bullet fired directly into his skull had killed him." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 164393c | Somewhere on the border of Burma and India is a monument. Carved on a giant teak tree, "preserved for humanity," are the words BANDOOLA BORN 1897, KILLED IN ACTION 1944. Williams never saw Po Toke again." | Vicki Constantine Croke |