“Never say that you’re useless! I’ve seen more courage tonight from you than I have ever seen in someone in my entire life; you were ready to fight those Kins to certain death! Now get up!”
― Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
― Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“Victims?"
"Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice."
"That sounds like an excellent definition of man.”
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"Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice."
"That sounds like an excellent definition of man.”
―
“With this purpose, the author chose for the subject of his story a woman named Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726, for the deliberate murder of her husband, under very revolting circumstances. Mr. Thackeray’s aim obviously was to describe the career of this wretched woman and her associates with such fidelity to truth as to exhibit the danger and folly of investing such persons with heroic and romantic qualities.”
― Delphi Complete Works of W. M. Thackeray
― Delphi Complete Works of W. M. Thackeray
“It was easy to make the obvious leap that the money was supposed to be my fee for whatever Lillian Holler wanted to expose. Sometimes my clients come with prepayment. I still questioned why she had picked me and how she had found me. But she was a wealthy woman and wealthy women have ways of finding out whatever it is they want to know.”
― Treacherous Estate
― Treacherous Estate
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