historical-fiction

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

One night when the moon was full, I explained to you about how the moon controls the tides, and you said I was like the moon and you were the sea, always following me about. And I said nothing, because I knew it was truly the other way around.

See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig in their books, like nothing matters that don__ get written in some book somewhere. Like that__ the only way they can know for sure what happened. They__l write down who they are and what they did. And their daddies and theirs too. Put it all in a book, then close it up and put it on the shelf. Just to know it__ there so they can sleep at night. Like if they don__ get written down somewhere and they shut their eyes for a minute, they might disappear.

'Are our gods better than Olaf's god?' Alfdis laughed. 'That's a silly question. Gods are gods. Our gods have been with us since the beginning of the world. We sacrifice to them, and they aid us when they see fit. Other people have their own gods and their own ways of dealing with them. That's their concern.'

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": __hat a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

He didn't know what he was anymore _ not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western ideas, but neither did he feel truly Westernised. There had been times when he had thought himself so, but a glimpse at his reflection quickly showed him the impossibility of such thoughts. No, rather, he felt suspended between two worlds, never to truly belong to either. The Yellow Papers

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.

Atty__ eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word __edoubtable_ in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

They didn__ realize that if you take away the possibility of pain, and suffering, failure_you also take away the possibility of happiness, success, and joy." -The Old Man: DOMINATUS

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big as the world down there, underneath the water. There could be anything down there. Things we can't even imagine. How can we understand anything if we can see so little of it?'

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.