A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
the one for whom the sun shines. . -Ramses II
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.
Not the outcome any of us wanted.
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.