#robe

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#heroes #humanity #love #psychology #robert-cormier

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#robespierre #love

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #funny #humor #robert-langdon #toilet

His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it. ↗

— Stephen King

#robertson-davies #new-adult

(On the death of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll) Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine. ↗

— Mark Twain

#eulogy #friend #funeral #grief #love

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#cage #girl #historical-fiction #marjorie-bruce #old

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole) ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #lace #wardrobe #humor

I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#hyper-calvinist #jesse-mercer #r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #r-alan-woods

I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left.” “You didn't give me up,” she tossed back. “You never wanted me.” “I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you.” He dragged her painfully to her toes. “I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#romance #the-reef #love

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#robert-louis-stevenson #death