“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she’d been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn felt suddenly very solemn and serious. Usually during lessons and lectures she felt only a fierce desire to be elsewhere or an irresistible urge to fidget, but now she sat as still as a statue, sensing that what Marna was about to tell her was more important, and certainly more interesting, than herb lore or weaving patterns.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
Kate Constable
Born place: in Sandringham, Melborne (Victoria), Australia
Born date January 1, 1966
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“every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Salem Falls
“On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.”
― Robert Graves, quote from Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“What does a former kidnapper/murderer do in retirement? - Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Epilogue
“و هذا الاحساس كان قد استيقظ في نفسي منذ زمن بعيد ، و هو أنني كنت أتحلل و أنا حي ، و لم يكن هناك توافق بين جسمي وقلبي ، وليس هذا فحسب ، بل بين روحي و قلبي ، كنت اجتاز دائما نوعا من الفصام و التحلل الغريب ، و أحيانا كنت أفكر في أشياء لا أستطيع أنا نفسي أن أصدقها”
― Sadegh Hedayat, quote from The Blind Owl
“- what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?”
― Kate Quinn, quote from Mistress of Rome
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