Kate Mosse Quotes

#1. Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

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#7. 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.

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#8. It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.

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

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. People think that I'm very serious.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

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#16. Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

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

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#18. Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

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#19. I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

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#20. Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

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

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Pas a pas, se va luenh.
Step by step, we make our way.

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

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

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#27. One cannot always marry the person one loves...

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#28. Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

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

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#30. Music is a personal response to vibration.

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#31. 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.

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#32. Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world.

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