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It don't mean a damned thing," Colonel Parker was rumored to have remarked on Elvis's death. "It's just like when he was away in the army.

that—too busy playing football. I figured someone was…." He trailed off. Isaacson glanced up. "Was what?" "Never mind. Need anything else, sir? I

If the truth was a woman she'd be a whore. She'd be an extremely supple, highly sinuous, ridiculously wanton slut.

She was the bringer of light. Let them call her hægtes if they must. If she didn't speak her mother and Hereswith might die.

Mildburh's eyes were muddy, honest blue, like hillberries. Hereswith's were as blue as their mother's, but without the cold blaze.

Even though your sister is now the overking's peaceweaver, we must show our strength and make our persuasions in person.

They are malicious, gods, these Tuath, to make such things to fight over.

Gwladus was right. The tremble turned her from madwoman to frightened maid.

Get creative. I could find out which hospital bed Kars was in. To make sure he wouldn't wake up.

She smiled to herself at the sudden shyness that fell on the two girls as she walked away.

She was tired of striving, tired of the sideways look of those who did not trust her.

Did its magic work? It had not saved the man who wore it.

Hereswith's eyes were so blue. Sister blue.

Why Christ and his priests should care what we do with each other, I don't know. But they like to meddle.

Your bodywoman is no doubt making the household miserable. Fear has made her vicious.

My lord." Gwenhwyfar's voice was gentle. "You have given no word here for any to either trust or distrust.

Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.

I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition. It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

One of the worst intellectual catastrophes is found in the appropriation of scientific concepts and vocabulary by mediocre intelligences.

Natural disasters devastate a region less effectively than the alliance of greed and technology.