“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from The Devil's Right Hand
“What you can't run away from, you have to face”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from The Devil's Right Hand
“Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from The Devil's Right Hand
“Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from The Devil's Right Hand
“Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from The Devil's Right Hand
Lilith Saintcrow
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“In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from Breadcrumbs
“I will keep an eye on Diatribe, with her big talk and heroic gestures, to see with what force she will bring down my Achilles, when hitherto she has never managed to hit a common soldier, not even a Thersites, but she has shot her miserable self to pieces with her own weapons.”
― Martin Luther, quote from The Bondage of the Will
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. And for every beggar in America, Italy can show a hundred - and rags and vermin to match. It is the wretchedest, princeliest land on earth.
Look at the grande Doumo of Florence - a vast pile that has been sapping the purses of her citizens for five hundred years, and is not nearly finished yet. Like all other men,
I fell down and worshiped it, but when the filthy beggars swarmed around me the contrast was too striking, too suggestive, and I said. "Oh, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavor, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Innocents Abroad
“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”
― Iain Pears, quote from The Dream of Scipio
“MarkBaynard: [...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world w/open arms?
Abby_Donovan: I didn't write it for the world. I wrote it for me.
MarkBaynard: Then that's what you need to do again. Write yourself another book.
Abby_Donovan: But I know in my heart I'll never write anything as good as that book.
MarkBaynard: [...] It doesn't matter what you write as long as you stop beating yourself up about not writing and start writing.”
― Teresa Medeiros, quote from Goodnight Tweetheart
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