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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.


Barry Unsworth


#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille.


Cassandra Clare


#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.


Michael York


#been #bring #british #cannot #dinner

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.


Uta Hagen


#because #could #hostess #hump #say

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.


Cassandra Clare


#humor #jem-carstairs #teasing #tessa-gray #will-herondale

They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. Will blinked at her. “What?” “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” “Mauve,” said Will.


Cassandra Clare


#tessa-gray #will-herondale #soul

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.


Hannah Arendt


#earth #human #human condition #quintessence #very

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.


Brooks Atkinson


#been #life #quintessence #seems #truth

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.


Max Beerbohm


#host #hostess #lady #macbeth #mankind

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.


Gene Fowler


#books #core #died #essence #heart