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“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”
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“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”
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“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
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“We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.”
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“Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies”
Source : Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Shadows: The Chosen Ones”, p.184, Penguin
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“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”
Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House
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“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.”
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“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House
