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"The prelude ends with this stanza, in which Guite half-charges other pens with the same task he now undertakes:
"So I have taken up the tale
to tell it full and free.
The tale that makes the heart rejoice,
I tell it, for I have no choice—
I tell it till another voice
takes up the tale from me."" — Apr 19, 2026 09:20PM
"The prelude ends with this stanza, in which Guite half-charges other pens with the same task he now undertakes:
"So I have taken up the tale
to tell it full and free.
The tale that makes the heart rejoice,
I tell it, for I have no choice—
I tell it till another voice
takes up the tale from me."" — Apr 19, 2026 09:20PM
“Around other people, you couldn’t keep doing the same thing. They forced you to adapt. Grow.”
― Isles of the Emberdark
― Isles of the Emberdark
“So I have taken up the tale
to tell it full and free.
The tale that makes the heart rejoice,
I tell it, for I have no choice—
I tell it till another voice
takes up the tale from me.”
― Galahad and the Grail
to tell it full and free.
The tale that makes the heart rejoice,
I tell it, for I have no choice—
I tell it till another voice
takes up the tale from me.”
― Galahad and the Grail
“She liked to think of herself as a good, devout woman, but on the other hand, she despised the idea that anything was unknowable.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“Husbands have been putting their names on their wives’ work in this city for three hundred years. And if it’s not a woman’s husband, it’s her boss, because women are limited to being apprentices and assistants in almost every profession worth doing. No woman ever gets credit for the work she puts in—especially in academia. She never gets the glory. Well, I’m not married, I’m no one’s apprentice, and I’ll be damned if I let a man find some other way to take my glory from me.”
― Blood Over Bright Haven
― Blood Over Bright Haven
“...and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imaginations can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive.”
― The Sword in the Stone
― The Sword in the Stone
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