"But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix……" — Rosemary Sutcliff
"But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home."
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Rosemary Sutcliff
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13 Quotes by Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff has 13 quotes on this site.
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We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
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When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is…
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...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.
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I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as…
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The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no…
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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served…
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And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will…
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Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?” Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is…
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I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast"…
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Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.
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It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come…
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And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or…
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More Aching Quotes
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
— Rudyard Kipling
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
— George Washington
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Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get…
— Charlie Chaplin
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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you…
— Joseph Conrad
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
— Natalie Goldberg
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind,…
— Joseph Lyons
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can…
— John Tukey
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
— Thomas Gray
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
— Ruth Pitter
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by…
— Ed Kashi
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
— David Berlinski
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within…
— William Hazlitt
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