Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Rumours crop in the short summer nights. Dawn finds them like mushrooms in the damp grass. Members of Thomas Cromwell's household have been seeking…

— Hilary Mantel

“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.”

— Danielle Ackley-McPhail

“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL”

— Brian Christian

“Chance knows not of the divine, nor the strands of fate. It is but a ripple in our precarious existence, easily overseen, seldom noticed.”

— A.C. Heller

“To be brief, Miss Vaughan has adopted, body and soul, precisely those abuses which Catholics of intelligence earnestly desire to see expunged from their…

— Arthur Edward Waite

“Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast…

— Anthony Trollope

“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned…

— Richard Hughes

“On the above matters there is much to be orally transmitted, as these are our deepest secrets and are kept within our family. Even…

— Yoshie Minami

“Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim…

— Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

“You're no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You're a viscountess with…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Who trusts the sea? Lawlessness is her law; You will be drowned if you cannot decide To turn away from her inconstant tide. She…

— Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār

“A woman has never been able to become a priest—she cannot even be a deacon, nor yet a chorister—but a woman can with the…

— Sigrid Undset