Ariana Franklin Quotes

#1. A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

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#2. Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

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#3. Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

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#4. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

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#5. This infatuation must be dispelled; it is necessary for me not to admire you. I do not wish to fall in love.

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#6. She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

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#7. Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

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#8. To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

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#9. Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...

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#10. Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

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#11. And then in response to a reply audible to no one but him, Gwilherm de Vannes, bravest of men, gave one last contented sigh and closed his eyes.

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#12. Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

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#13. Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

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#14. Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one.

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#15. You are a drab, she told herself, seduced into infatuation by a soldier's tale. Outremer, bravery, crusade, it is illusory romance. Pull yourself together, woman.

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#16. The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

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#17. Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

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#18. Will there be traitors, Father?" "There are always traitors. Trust nobody.

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#19. A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon.

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#20. The possession of power brings on madness.

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#21. Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.

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#22. Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit," Gordinus told her cheerfully. "Sometimes rising to one, sometimes swooping to the other. To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.

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#23. She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

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#24. Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

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#25. But God, having as little comprehension of the feminine mind as any male, did not reply.

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#26. Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

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#27. The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

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#28. I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

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#29. Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

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