Arcs Quote by Kamila Shamsie

“I am Athena. Before that I was Thea, singer and slave and lover of gladiators. Before that I was Leah, daughter of Benjamin and…

— Kate Quinn

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

— Moby

I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about…

— Indira Gandhi

“Still, I was a tourist everywhere. Lifting language and culture from the love of people who weren't my kin but held me as their…

— Gabby Rivera

“She did not like bigots or brilliant bores or academicians who wore their honors, or scholars who wore their doctorates, like dogtags. But she…

— Langston Hughes

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't…

— Dorothy Parker

“...resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.' ”

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Anything else, Your Majesty?" "I didn't say my prayers." "I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless all the…

— Maggie Osborne

“And Englishmen like posing as gods.”

— E.M. Forster

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was…

— Edmund White

“Be careful that your Christianity does not become so dignified that your royal robes become symbols of what you know rather than symbols of…

— Aaron Fruh

“I’m a culture hero,” he said. “We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up more and nobody worships us. They tell…

— Neil Gaiman