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“Weshecat-welo k’weshe-laweh-pah, let us be strong by doing right.”
This is an emotional, passionate account of the life of Tecumseh. The reader is engulfed in the culture, the philosophy and the spirituality of the great Shawnee nation Very few are able to create a great historical novel with such a depth of immersion into the stark reality of the times yet a breadth of vision of a long lost world.
“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all." —SIR”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“For so it seemed to them: Lórien was slipping backward, like a bright ship masted with enchanted trees, sailing on to forgotten shores, while they sat helpless upon the margin of the grey and leafless world.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“You are the source of my life. You bring rivers from the mountain springs. You brighten my eyes. The wine you offer takes me out of myself into the self we share. Doing that is religion.”
― A Year With Rumi
― A Year With Rumi
“sensitive, imaginative spirit. Somewhere quiet and deep down, I knew I’d get here.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
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