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Before long, all I thought about was what it would be like to be one of them. To be with boys my own age, fighting and running and larking about. And to learn to ride and shoot, instead of sitting in the chamber all day with women and
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“Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the Apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, ‘Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.’ But Peter said to him, ‘May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!”
― Conclave
― Conclave
“He told them that going willingly to their deaths in Christ’s name was a sure path to salvation. Of course, it was one thing for Bernard to write this, theorizing a thousand miles from the Holy Land and glorifying in a martyrdom he would never himself experience. It was quite another for a band of ninety Templars, called from their castle and told to attack against impossible odds, to swallow down their fear and do it. Yet they did.”
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
“love has nothing to do with what you’re looking at, and everything to do with who’s looking.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“Winners never talk about glorious victories. That’s because they’re the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It’s only the losers who have glorious victories.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Babies are such blank slates. They don’t come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don’t like.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
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