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“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company of young men; She did. But her sharp tongue sliced through their egos and her intellectual thirst quickly soaked up what drops of knowledge they shed.”
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
― Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
“I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence”
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
― Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
“Well, I’m sorry. But if ever you needed proof that the Bible was written by a man, there you have”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“There is a certain fine simplicity in a landscape from which the element of water, with all the varied life it brings in it murmuring train, is entirely absent.”
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
― Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
“Then she laughed out loud and hugged him tight with both arms. She smelled like pine trees and lichens and hot sand. How odd, thought Roger, that after all, this is what it took - not a flock of scarlet ibises or golden-crowned kinglets, but just the names of chicken, hovering in the air like the sulpher butterflies at the dump.”
― Quite a Year for Plums
― Quite a Year for Plums
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