Quotes from Wesley Stace

You are undoubtedly of the opinion that men are superior to women. Esmond?" "Well, I…" "You are wrong. Eve is superior because she was created after Adam. God didn't take backward steps, so Eve must be an improvement.

They're not doing much for themselves. I'm sure they'd rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can't. They're not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging. The alternative is suicide- and we are too fearful for that.

I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.

When the two become the one And the inside outside, the outside in So that the male be not male nor the female female Then will you see me.

Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.

These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.)

They change what they do not like,' said Jessold, referring to the singers. 'And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts for the basic truth of folk-song.

too much detail can have a distancing effect

Ho sempre associato il calore del suo corpo attraverso la camicia da notte al segreto della perfetta torta di zucchero di Barnet.