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“The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.” “Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.”

Years Firsts Said States Nations Gone Fool Civilization Built Yeah Ancient Carter Pyramids Great Nations

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.”

Should Mind Firsts Believe Humans Two Fool Limits Illusion Mad Instance Human Mind Futility

Book:Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.”

Firsts Children Inspiration Mother Hours Cry Tears Fool Lays Obedience Noses Curse Fairy Touched Cried Shaking Obedient Crying Child

Book:Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

“Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.”

Ifs Way Years Firsts Said Wanted Values Three Bits Waiting Saws Pieces Imagine Hair Fool Needed Saint Refuse Bones Divided Three Years Possessed Imagine That Nails Trimming

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair