Karen Essex Quotes

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

I am more human than rational.

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true?

I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted.

One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.

The rich rarely give a black dog for a white monkey, my friend. It's the way of the world.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be, he invoked.