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By AnonymAriana Franklin
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.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
the possession of power brings on madness.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
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.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
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By AnonymAriana Franklin
Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.
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