Check out my Book Quotes Collection
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, he kudzu of history.”
– Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
“all monsters were misunderstood.”
– Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
“Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.”
― Michael Korda, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
“A royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband.
She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her.
Without him, she was nothing.”
― Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books
at the right time in the company of the right teacher,
it will change their life forever.”
― Charles Cumming, The Trinity Six
“Individually, the experience of most people was of accelerating impotence and incomprehension. They lived in a world of superstition. ”
― Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
