Michael Dennis

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“And Mr. Knightley always wanted us to be friends!"

"Yes, and if we had been we should have changed each other's lives."

...."Now we shall never have the chance; it it too late."

And Emma said with equal sadness: "Yes, that is true. But at least we have stopped being enemies.”
― Joan Aiken, Jane Fairfax

“No sooner had the struggling soul escaped from the clay-cold body of Count Renaud, than his eldest son, Count Rhodophil, hastened to the library, and opening the secret cabinet, where his late father usually deposited his papers of consequence, after a strict examination of the contents, returned to the anti-chamber, on the floor of which lay extended his brother, the deeply-afflicted Ferdinand, just recovering from a fainting fit, and overwhelmed with inexpressible anguish.”
― Eliza Parsons, The Mysterious Warning

“It may be taken as axiomatic that any statement of fact about the Middle Ages may (and probably will) be met by a statement of the opposite or a different version. Women outnumbered men because men were killed off in the wars; men outnumbered women because women died in childbirth. Common people were familiar with the Bible; common people were unfamiliar with the Bible. Nobles were tax exempt; no, they were not tax exempt. French peasants were filthy and foul-smelling and lived on bread and onions; French peasants ate pork, fowl, and game and enjoyed baths in the village bathhouses. The list could be extended indefinitely.”
― Barbara Tuchman