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Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
David Mitchell • The Bone Clocks: A Novel
it may well be that at this moment she’s demanding to have him down with her in Hell. That kind is sometimes perfectly ready to plunge the soul they say they love in endless misery if only they can still in some fashion possess it. No, no. Ye must draw another lesson. Ye must ask, if the risen body even of appetite is as grand a horse as ye saw, wh
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The Great Divorce
“sons of God,” a potential reference to angels, and in this case fallen angels.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Make his flesh liker and his soul more like, Both in their order? Take the prettiest face, The Prior’s niece … patron-saint — is it so pretty You can’t discover if it means hope, fear, Sorrow or joy? won’t beauty go with these? Suppose I’ve made her eyes all right and blue, Can’t I take breath and try to add life’s flash, And then add soul and heig
... See moreRobert Browning • The Complete Poems of Robert Browning - 22 Poetry Collections in One Edition: My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Christmas-Eve, Easter-Day…
While in Milan in 1507, Leonardo met a fourteen-year-old named Francesco Melzi (fig. 101). He was the son of a distinguished nobleman who was a captain in the Milanese militia and later a civil engineer who worked to reinforce the city’s fortifications, endeavors that fascinated Leonardo. The Melzis lived in the largest villa in the town of Vaprio,
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
