End Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are…

— Katherine Longshore

“Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there’s no escaping it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

— Horace

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Beware, William of Mercia, you heeded not our warnings and you can no longer turn back, but the path ahead is strewn with danger,…

— K.J. Wignall

“He will awaken, through blood, what lies dormant in her soul. The darkness that had lurked hidden for years, sleepily waiting for the time…

— Tillie Cole

“Only at dawn should a man awake from excess - at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve.”

— Patrick Hamilton

“The only indestructible palace is in the heart.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

“Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for…

— Madeline Miller

“Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must…

— John Speed