Art history Quote by George Pratt

“You know,” Taniel said, “we could have kept firing after they sounded the retreat. Would have wiped out thousands on the mountainside. The Kez…

— Brian McClellan

“Seems Brood lost his temper.' 'Gods! With whom? Kallor? That bastard deserves-' 'Not Kallor, friend,' Coll growled. 'Make another guess — shouldn't take you…

— Steven Erikson

“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured…

— Frances Hardinge

“Did you hear that crazy man? we said. --Education is your mother? we said. We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like…

— Dave Eggers

“The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.”

— John Berryman

“We are what We have lost”

— Alex Kuo

“I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the…

— T. Coraghessan Boyle

“Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained when they…

— Marilynne Robinson

“A battle was fought at Kuamoo, at first favorable to the defenders of the gods; but the fire-arms of the whites in the service…

— King David Kalakaua

“However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized,…

— Frances Hardinge

“Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar’s death would not bring back his father, Elk’s Call at Dawn, or his mother,…

— Raymond E. Feist

“He was lost. He knew it. He had neither the size nor the strength to defeat her, and she had him cornered. But he…

— Meredith Ann Pierce