Derek

“A man who loves his daughter does not let her go into Wales.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne

“Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm

“Again we are all sprung from the same seed, all have the same father, by whom mother earth the giver of increase, when she has taken in from him the liquid drops of moisture, conceives and bears goodly crops and joyous trees and the race of man, bears all kinds of brute beasts, in that she supplies food with which all feed their bodies and lead a pleasant life and continue their race; wherefore with good cause she has gotten the name of mother.”
― Lucretius, The Nature of Things

“The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses."
"That's what God says about geologists," I told him...”
― John McPhee, Basin and Range