Ariana Franklin Quotes

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

the possession of power brings on madness.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

A daughter, ' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son, ' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.