"You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.607, Head of Zeus Ltd

Ellis Peters

#Devil Quotes #Saint Quotes #Deny Quotes

“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.”
“Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.”
“Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.”
“Being a lady does not require silence.”

Source : Address at the International Women’s Year meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, geraldrfordfoundation.org. October 25, 1975.
“I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.”
“You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?”
“Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”
“By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.”

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