A Place Called Freedom Quotes

“Behold, a man in anguish bending
Marked by pain and loss
Yonder stony hill ascending
Carrying a cross”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“that crime was caused by poverty. That was like saying adultery was caused by marriage.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“MACK DREAMED HE WAS WADING ACROSS A RIVER TO A place called Freedom.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“He found it easy to charm a girl: it was mainly a matter of pretending to be interested in everything she said, although good looks and good manners helped. He bowled them over without much effort. But now for the first time he had suffered the same treatment. When he was with Lizzie he always felt slightly breathless, and he knew that he stared at her as if she were the only person in the room, the way a girl stared at him when he was being fascinating. Was that love? He thought it must be.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“The law was useful only to those who had the power to enforce it, it seemed.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Mack glanced at his twin out of the corner of his eye. She was not in a dogmatic frame of mind, he could tell. She looked troubled rather than combative. He felt a surge of affection for her. Whatever happened, she would be on his side.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Everything is different in the colonies. I've read books about it. People are more free and easy. You're taking for what you are.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“John Locke and other philosophers said a government’s authority could come only from the consent of the people.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“great”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“They may compel their child to work in the mine until he reaches the age of twenty-one, but’ ”—Mack paused dramatically and read the next bit very slowly—“ ‘but then he will be free to leave!”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“The parents cannot sell what they do not own, namely the freedom of a grown man.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It’s like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“They want you to scare those middling people by violence and rioting. That will get people worrying about the need to maintain order, and stop them thinking about freedom of speech.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Aye. But right and wrong don’t count much in this world—only in the next.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Remember our story. You’re going to visit a cousin who has just started to farm in North Carolina. You’re taking gifts.” “Even though we’re bankrupt.” “Virginians are famous for being generous when they can’t afford it.” Lizzie nodded. “I’ll make sure Colonel Thumson and Suzy Delahaye hear of my plans.” “Tell them that your mother-in-law disapproves and she may try to make trouble for you.” “Good idea. The sheriff won’t want to get involved in a family quarrel.” She paused. The look on her”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Quel giorno la vita e la morte erano state distribuite come carte da gioco.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“Over the fireplace was the portrait of his father’s first wife, Robert’s mother, Olive. Jay hated that painting. There she was, solemn and saintly, looking down her long nose at all who came after her. When she caught a fever and died suddenly at the age of twenty-nine his father had remarried, but he never forgot his first love. He treated Jay’s mother, Alicia, like a mistress, a plaything with no status and no rights; and he made Jay feel almost like an illegitimate son. Robert was the firstborn, the heir, the special one. Jay sometimes wanted to ask whether it had been an immaculate conception and a virgin birth.”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“dismay Preece recovered yet again, rather suddenly, and”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom

“era algo así como decir que el adulterio tenía su origen en el matrimonio. Los”
― Ken Follett, Un lugar llamado libertad

“to stay, and lull them into a false sense of security. He”
― Ken Follett, A Place Called Freedom