Hand holding Quote by Robert Jordan

“The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams…

— David Weber

“A dragon killer, he was, a rescuer of damsels, and his small sins seemed so great to him that he felt unfit and unseemly.…

— John Steinbeck

“This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of…

— Andreï Makine

“Look at me, Conan!" She threw wide her arms. "I am Belit, queen of the black coast. Oh, tiger of the North, you are…

— Robert E. Howard

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of…

— Chinua Achebe

“reminding him of what he once intended to be before he ate the apple of wisdom and became as the gods and devils.”

— Grace Livingston Hill

“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never really loved…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries…

— Michael Chabon

“His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the…

— Lauren Groff

“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around.…

— Rion Amilcar Scott

“Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself.”

— John Paul II