Mosse Quotes & Sayings

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for. — Kate Mosse

What man is, only history tells. — George Mosse

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time. — Kate Mosse

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. — Kate Mosse

People think that I'm very serious. — Kate Mosse

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life. — Kate Mosse

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. — Kate Mosse

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. — Kate Mosse

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse

It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die. — Kate Mosse

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. — Kate Mosse

It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this. — Kate Mosse

And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed. — Kate Mosse

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. — Kate Mosse

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives. — Kate Mosse

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret. — Kate Mosse

One cannot always marry the person one loves... — Kate Mosse

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature ... Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound. — Kate Mosse

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. — Kate Mosse

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. — Kate Mosse

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. — Kate Mosse

Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world. — Kate Mosse

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views. — Kate Mosse

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask. — Kate Mosse

Pas a pas, se va luenh.
Step by step, we make our way. — Kate Mosse

Georges Sorel, to whom fascism is so much indebted, wrote at the beginning of our century that all great movements are compelled by 'myths.' A myth is the strongest belief held by the group, and its adherents feel themselves to be an army of truth fighting an army of evil. Some years earlier, in 1895, the French psychologist Gustav Le Bon had written of the 'conservatism of crowds' which cling tenaciously to traditional ideas. Hitler took the basic nationalism of the German tradition and the longing for stable personal relationships of olden times, and built upon them as the strongest belief of the group. In the diffusion of the 'myth' Hitler fulfilled what Le Bon had forecast: that 'magical powers' were needed to control the crowd. The Fuhrer himself wrote of the 'magic influence' of mass suggestion and the liturgical aspects of his movement, and its success as a mass religion bore out the truth of this view. — George L. Mosse

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. — Kate Mosse

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen. — Kate Mosse

What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise. — Kate Mosse

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all. — Kate Mosse

It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...and restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity. — George L. Mosse

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading. — Kate Mosse

Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls. — Kate Mosse

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. — Kate Mosse

Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. "Let them have a chance" was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it. — George L. Mosse

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse. — John Heywood

Music is a personal response to vibration. — Kate Mosse

Then he says her name. Her real name. The soft music of it hangs suspended in the air between them. Threat or entreaty, she doesn't know, but she feels her resolve weaken. He says it again, this time, it sounds bitter, false in his mouth. A betrayal. The spell is broken. The woman known as Sophie lifts her arm. And shoots. — Kate Mosse