Giudecca Venezia Quotes & Sayings

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. — Nina Bawden

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling. — Anthony Trollope

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me. — Eric Hoffer

I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative. — Camille Flammarion

The edges of the steel blade as Iron glamour flared around her, a maelstrom of deadly power. I saw her lips move, a name on them, perhaps mine, and felt nothing. My glamour rose up to meet hers, cold and dangerous, and our powers slammed into each other with the roar of dueling dragons.
Flashes of images, like broken mirror shards, falling to the earth. Iron and ice, clashing against each other. Rage and hate, swirling in vicious, ugly colors around us. Glamour and pain and blood. — Julie Kagawa