Flesh and blood Quote by Alex Rutherford

“For lust of knowing what we should not know,’ he was fond of intoning, ‘we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”

— Anthony Powell

“It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A noble quest, Kirsch thought, despite seeing it as an empty exercise—a meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient…

— Dan Brown

“Did his parents have any idea that in the entire castle, in the entire kingdom, there was no one more noble and loyal than…

— Sarah J. Maas

“I had clung to the fable of the Steppenwolf, believing that his redemption would also become mine.”

— Edna O'Brien

“Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie,…

— A.B. Shepherd

“He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he…

— Heidi Cullinan

“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present,…

— George Orwell

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,…

— Alfred de Vigny

“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose edges were…

— William Faulkner

“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least one of…

— Stephen A. Reger

“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the…

— Leigh Bardugo