Ashton

“On the bus, thinking over the early years of the Russian revolution, she wondered whether Lenin’s decision to close all newspapers except the Bolshevik ones had been the key error. It meant that, right from the start, alternative ideas had had no circulation and the conventional wisdom could never be challenged.”
― Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity

“When we haven’t yet mastered a lesson in love, we either resent the person assigned to teach us the lesson, or feel guilty and/or sad because we can’t fill all the needs of someone we love.”
― Barbara Carrellas, Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

“Hasn’t God always chosen things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise?”
― Francine Rivers, A Lineage of Grace

“Do you have work?’ It was a favourite trick of the Communists to make sure a man could not get a job, then accuse him of being a social parasite.”
― Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity