“Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“Flogging will continue until morale improves.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse
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“38[†]And Peter said to them, o “Repent and p be baptized every one of you q in the name of Jesus Christ r for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive s the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39[†]For t the promise is for you and u for your children and for all v who are far off, everyone w whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
― quote from ESV Study Bible
“And clay-caked clothes are so last year.”
― Maria V. Snyder, quote from Touch of Power
“What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.”
― Kate Mosse, quote from Labyrinth
“new; it had been lying there with all the other half-thought, half-chewed, half-dreamed ideas. The third chicken had been killed in the same way as Sylvia, with an electric cutting loop. He went to the place where the floorboards had absorbed the blood and crouched down. If the Snowman had killed the last chicken, why had he used the loop and not the hatchet? Simple. Because the hatchet had disappeared in the depths of the forest somewhere. So this must have happened after the murder. He had come all the way back here and slaughtered a chicken. But why? A kind of voodoo ritual? A sudden inspiration? Bullshit—this killing machine stuck to the”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Snowman
“When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.”
― Iain Pears, quote from An Instance of the Fingerpost
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Reason to Breathe
Mere Christianity
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Blood Red Road
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