"If ever you do go back, what is……" — Ellis Peters
"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still."
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Ellis Peters
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24 Quotes by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters has 24 quotes on this site.
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is…
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in…
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was…
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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