Mileham Castle Quotes & Sayings

I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human. — Graeme Simsion

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless. — Sarah Dessen

I knew where Rose was - the peculiar crinkling of space on space into dimensions that fold like origami and blossom like strange orchids, and which would mark the last good time before the eventual end of everything — Neil Gaiman

Until you believe you have options, you'll continue to feel stuck. — Sean Stephenson

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. — J.K. Rowling

Be joyful and expect a great future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. — George Eliot

Ida tried not to sigh.
"What do you think of your husband?" he asked.
"He was rather short," Ida said without thinking. When Aubrey didn't respond, she thought that maybe she ought to elaborate and she said, "And beardy."
That was as much as she could remember of him in the midst of the chaotic events. He was short, bearded, quiet. But mostly short.
"He used to be an officer," Aubrey said.
"So I have been told," Ida tried, again, to keep the cheek from her voice though she was quite certain that she was failing.
"In the Varangian army," Aubrey continued.
She resisted the urge to comment on how she didn't care. — Carmen Dominique Taxer

AS A chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake. — Andy Weir

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London. — Bonnie Tyler

Decadence is wonderful. — Jack L. Chalker

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee. — James I Of Scotland

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers. — Peter Kropotkin