Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one.

Ariana Franklin


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

Ariana Franklin


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

Ariana Franklin


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The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Ariana Franklin

Tags: city-of-shadows



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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.

Ariana Franklin

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Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.

Ariana Franklin

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She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

Ariana Franklin


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She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

Ariana Franklin

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

Ariana Franklin

Tags: love-spirit-uplifting



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... Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

Ariana Franklin


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