Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen. . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape. . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.
God gave a law. . . called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.
My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.