“It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed.”
― A Brightness Long Ago
― A Brightness Long Ago
“What we think we’ll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn’t always in our own control, our life.”
― A Brightness Long Ago
― A Brightness Long Ago
“He had a sense, through that spring, that his life would be so much better for her presence. He wasn't wrong, but it was equally a truth that the purpose and direction of her life was not to make his better, and in time he even came to understand that.”
― A Brightness Long Ago
― A Brightness Long Ago
“What's a horse doing on a spaceship"
"What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"
Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace”
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"What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"
Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace”
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“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?”
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