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“Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“The revelation that I’m destined to meet many virgins from the East and the promise of limitless love they hold in their bosoms gives me strength, fortitude, and tenacity—and the wisdom to know that all three are synonyms.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked.
"What weight?" Rand replied.
"That lost hand you've been carrying."
Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.”
― A Memory of Light
"What weight?" Rand replied.
"That lost hand you've been carrying."
Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.”
― A Memory of Light
“Whither be the heart of Justice?
Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
Whither be the heart of Justice?
Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
Whither be the heart of Justice?
Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse,”
― The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
― The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
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