“He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby’s first breath, a mother’s fading heartbeat.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya’qūb of Aleppo never doubted it, either.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
“He would never be able to emulate Richard’s last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
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“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order. We butcher, grind, chop, grate, mince, and liquefy raw ingredients, breaking down formerly living things so that we might recombine them in new, more cultivated forms. When you think about it, this is the same rhythm, once removed, that governs all eating in nature, which invariably entails the destruction of certain living things, by chewing and then digestion, in order to sustain other living things. In The Hungry Soul Leon Kass calls this the great paradox of eating: 'that to preserve their life and form living things necessarily destroy life and form.' If there is any shame in that destruction, only we humans seem to feel it, and then only on occasion. But cooking doesn't only distance us from our destructiveness, turning the pile of blood and guts into a savory salami, it also symbolically redeems it, making good our karmic debts: Look what good, what beauty, can come of this! Putting a great dish on the table is our way of celebrating the wonders of form we humans can create from this matter--this quantity of sacrificed life--just before the body takes its first destructive bite.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“Indians!" Sitting Bull shouted. "There are no Indians left but me!”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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