“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“Huoneesta kuuluva Piersin ääni oli hiljainen mutta veitsenterävä.
(C. J. Sansom: Ilmestys, suom. Ilkka Rekiaro)”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“Fanatics on both sides,’ old Ryprose said gloomily. ‘And all we poor ordinary folk in the middle. Sometimes I fear they will bring death to us all.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“It has driven men to extremes, to the impious arrogance of believing they alone can comprehend the vast mysteries of Scripture, let alone the mind of God. Such people are incapable of understanding even their own minds, for they confuse their own needs, for certainty or power, with God’s voice speaking to them.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“You sound as fierce against sin as Harsnet.’ He grinned. ‘Only sins I don’t feel drawn to myself,’ he said with a flash of his old humour. ‘ ’Tis always easy to condemn those.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
“It has become a world of black and white, Matthew, a Manichean world where preachers encourage everyone to rush towards a conflict between good and evil. Each knowing, of course, that their own side is entirely in the right.”
― C.J. Sansom, quote from Revelation
C.J. Sansom
Born place: in The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1952
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“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, quote from Allegiant
“Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies.”
― quote from The Qur'an / القرآن الكريم
“My best friend—her name was Helena—lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country.”
― Lois Lowry, quote from Number the Stars
“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”
― Anna Sewell, quote from Black Beauty
“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”
― James Joyce, quote from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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